Please No, Not a Blade Runner Sequel

bowman9991 submitted a story that ought to make even the most stone-hearted amongst you cry. He says "Travis Wright, one of the writers behind Eagle Eye, has been working on a sequel to Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi classic Blade Runner. Script proposals have explored the nature of the off-world colonies, what happens to the Tyrell Corporation in the wake of its founder's death, and what would become of Rachel. Travis said he intends to write a script 'with or without anyone's blessings.' Director Ridley Scott appears interested in a sequel too. At Comic-Con in 2007 Ridley said, 'If you have any scripts, you know where to send them.' It's doubtful he'll have time anytime soon though. He's already stated his next two science fiction films will be an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's Brave New Word with Leonardo DiCaprio and an adaptation of Joe Haldeman's The Forever War."

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Re:I've got a better idea

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Well, apart from Pulp Fiction he has been pretty much a complete disaster at the box office and the critics have been only too happy to point out that his (apparent) early potential has been completely unrealised.

Don't know what the figures are for Jackie Brown, but as it only had a budget of $12M I doubt it failed to make its money. The next major feature Tarantino made were the Kill Bill pair, which raked in $180,949,045 on a budget of $55M. Not sure how much Grindhouse made, but I doubt it failed to make its money.

So, I think you're talking out of your big fat ass. We can safely discount pretty much everything you wrote given your decision to resort to nonsensical drivel from your very first sentence on.

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Criticism

Many of Boll's movies, especially those based on video games, have been critically panned. Those that are based on video games are usually only loosely based on the game in question. As of September 15, 2008, Alone in the Dark and House of the Dead appear on the Internet Movie Database's Bottom 100 films list, although BloodRayne II: Deliverance has disappeared from the listing.[9] In a review of Alone in the Dark, Rob Vaux states that the movie makes other "bad" movie directors feel better in comparison: "'It's okay,' they'll tell themselves, 'I didn't make Alone in the Dark.'"[10] Another reviewer wrote that Alone in the Dark was "so poorly built, so horribly acted and so sloppily stitched together that it's not even at the straight-to-DVD level."[11]

When rumors surfaced that Boll had expressed interest in a Metal Gear Solid movie, and claimed to have been given a script to read, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima responded in his audioblog HIDECHAN, "Absolutely not! I don't know why Uwe Boll is even talking about this kind of thing. We've never talked to him. It's impossible that we'd ever do a movie with him."[12] Boll later stated that he only thought he was doing the film because he was tricked by two con-artists who claimed to work for Konami.[13]

Blair Erickson, a writer of a treatment for Alone in the Dark, has written a critical account of his experience working with Boll, in which Erickson alleges that Boll stole ideas from prior movies and wanted to add elements to the story that were not true to the tone of the source material. Uwe c