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Blade Runner Sequels and Prequels Happening

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the he-was-a-replicant-people dept.

bowman9991 writes "The iconic science fiction film Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's book and directed by Ridley Scott, will be followed up with sequels and prequels soon. Alcon Entertainment is in final discussions to secure film, TV and franchise rights. They are in the early stages of sorting out how to proceed and were not sure if Ridley Scott would be involved."

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  1. That's it, I quit humanity by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, I was watching one of the behind-the-scenes extras on the "Get Low" DVD the other day. For those who haven't seen it, "Get Low" is a quiet little movie--low-budget, not a lot of hoopla. But it has a suprisingly powerful screenplay and great performances from Robert Duvall and Bill Murray. Anyway, the producer points out that, even with a very powerful script and great leads attached, it still took over 8 years to get the movie made. He explained that Hollywood has become so fixated on sequels, prequels, franchises, remakes, and comic-book/TV adaptations that getting funding even for a small-budget *original* film, with no potential for a sequel or merchandising, has become a nightmare. Hollywood may celebrate these kinds of movies at Oscar time, but getting a studio to put up even a relatively trivial amount of money for them is almost impossible unless you can attach some hot A-list leads.

    And that is why we're treated to a stream of endless rapes of once-great franchises/TV shows/comic books. It's why a 60-year-old Harrison Ford is running around fighting fucking aliens with a bullwhip looking for a goddamn crystal skull, while Steven Spielberg is off-camera bathing in a pile of cash. It's why we get sequels to 25-year-old R-rated franchises with PG-13 ratings and once-great stars just there to collect a paycheck (yep, I'm looking at you Bruce Willis). It's why everyone who has produced even a mediocre comic book superhero has Hollywood fawning over them, while great original scripts go right into the trash bin.

    And now it's why we're going to get a shitty PG-13 action-oriented prequel/sequel to one of the great adult science fiction films of all time. It's something no one asked for. It will tarnish the original. And it will suck. But all Hollywood hears is "sequel" and so it's getting the green light.

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    1. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Damek · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And people keep paying for them. I keep reading how Hollywood is "fixated" on this stuff or has some sort of problem, but people keep buying what they're selling.

      Also, this stuff doesn't tarnish anything. Robocop's still a great movie. The original Star Wars films are still.. well, what they were. The Lord of the Rings books are still great books. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep wasn't tarnished by Blade Runner. I should know, I read the book far too late, twenty years after I started reading sci-fi and ten years after I saw Blade Runner. Dune wasn't tarnished by any of its film adaptations, and for me, the Lynch wasn't tarnished by the so-so SyFy versions. And Herbert's novels weren't tarnished by his kin's prequel novels.

      People like to revisit the places they've been before, with a little variation. You may as well complain, "why do genre novelists write so many series?" I have no freaking clue. But people buy them.

      Now, what I'd like to see is a film adaptation of The Demolished Man or The Stars My Destination by Bester. Also, any of MacLeod's or Reynolds' work, but then that would be a bit difficult...

    2. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by elrous0 · · Score: 3

      I can do a pretty boring summary of the premise of about any movie. It's all in where it goes from there, and how it's executed, that counts.

      Luke, a farmboy on a desert planet, is at odds with his adopted uncle--who doesn't want him to go off to college. Will he stay behind on the farm, or join the mysterious hermit Ben on an important mission, and discover the truth about his dead father along the way?

      Well, that one sounds like a fucking snoozefest. And I liked it a lot better back in 1958 when it was called "The Hidden Fortress."

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    3. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Paul+Slocum · · Score: 2

      Get Low is still a 7 million dollar movie. I think a better example of overcoming Hollywood is Primer, which is a great sci-fi film that was made for $7000. So the movie industry could have made one-thousand Primers for the cost of a "low-budget" movie like Get Low.

      Even worse is "127 Hours" which should have cost a few thousand to make but somehow cost $18 mil.

    4. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by GooberToo · · Score: 2

      I can do a pretty boring summary of the premise of about any movie.

      There used to be a website which existed to make movie summaries sound dumb. The cooler the movie, the more accurate and the dumber the summary, the better the summary was rated by participants.

      You'd be amazed at how many tragedies will make you laugh out loud when summarized in the right light.

    5. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Seumas · · Score: 3, Interesting

      A lot of people don't know better. Many (or even most?) people don't realize when a movie is a remake of a movie from decades ago. Or when a song is really a cover. Just read youtube (gah) comments for any modern cover of an older song and look at the throngs of younger people who think, for example, the Eurythmics "Sweet Dreams" is a Marylin Manson song.

      Why roll out something new when you can just repackage something old to a new audience that is too naive to have a clue?

    6. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by gstoddart · · Score: 5, Funny

      Saying Fuck every other word, showing exploding heads and having tits on screen constantly isn't the recipe for a good movie.

      No, but it's a good start. ;-)

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    7. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Seumas · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Editing your content and story to be consumable by little kids isn't the recipe for a good movie, either.

      Yippee ki-yay [ . . . ] . . . !

    8. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by RevWaldo · · Score: 2

      having tits on screen constantly isn't the recipe for a good movie.

      Yes, it is, but I digress.

      PG-13 is the marketing sweet spot that most studios shoot for. Teens can see it, parents won't be bored, and the underaged kids that are dragged along will probably forget what they saw ten minutes after the credits roll.

      PG-13 from a filmmaking perspective usually means one of two things:

      - This should by all rights be an R rated film in terms of the theme/sex/violence/cussing/etc. but they dialed it back enough to get under the line. They'll throw all the good bits back in with the "unrated" DVD. (Think the upcoming "Suckerpunch" - Babes! Violence! PG-13! WIN!)

      - This could be a PG film - not really a sex 'n violence free-for-all, kinda sweet actually - but they throw in enough cussing and shots of people's bums to get over the line. (Think "The Simpsons Movie")

      .

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    9. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by PinchDuck · · Score: 2

      C'mon, it doesn't have to suck. If they can be respectful to the vision of the original, as well as add in a wacky next-door-neighbor and a girl's vollyball team shower scene, it should be fine. Our target market is a group of 17 year-old boys. Maybe we'll add in some groin kick shots, too, to pull in the "jackass" crowd. Honestly, you really don't have anything to worry about.

    10. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by pz · · Score: 2

      Don't forget that the adaptation of Blade Runner from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? involved tossing huge swaths of the story away, and substantially rewriting the rest. Where is the mood dialing? The Mercerism? The vet service? The artificial pets and envy of owners with real ones? The lead codpieces? The intrigue at the police station? The ludicrously weak plot device that there's a shadow police body entirely of replicants? Deckard's hallucinatory escape outside the city?

      Blade Runner was a huge improvement over the original story.

      So, while the current Hollywood Studio greed is fixated on repeating the same story in diluted form to appease the masses and will, in all probability just create more unwatchable dren, it's not like the original Blade Runner didn't rape the story it was based on, to use the parent poster's terminology. However, given the story that another posted suggested is the basis for the sequel that uses a weak device to introduce characters that act and look exactly like characters from the original movie (why do anything original and interesting when repeating the same thing will make money?), I'm betting the parent poster is correct: we're going to get more swill.

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    11. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by fermion · · Score: 4, Interesting
      I don't know if this is new. Hollywood, it seems, has always been about brands, it is just the brands change. At one point it seems it was about the actors. Each studio owned certain people, and people would pay see those properties. Cluade Raines, Jane Russel, Charle Chapman. TV provided no competition nor means of advertising the product, real theater was and is expensive, so people just went to the moving picture show. We hear people say how much they like John Wayne, not that anything interesting happened in the movies.

      Then the actors were able to move around freely, and TV provided a competitive environment and a means of advertising, and technology advanced, so there may have a short time when movies were made to be original and entertaining, maybe early 60's to late 80's. This was when the full potential of the medium was once again used, which I think had not happened since the silent films. The thing with films after the silent is I think they became obsessed with the dialogue, or the color, and forgot that film was a multi sensory experience.We see this today with movies that are overly visual. I think the classic films, the ones we use to compare to the contemporary films, completely use the medium. Gone with the wind and the burning of atlanta. Casa Blanca and the use of the black and white film as an asset. The use of contemporary f/x in Star Wars.

      But comparing a selective group top films to a whole contemporary population is unfair. I would guess that most of the films from even 30 years ago are mostly unwatched by moder audiences, even the ones that we top. Xanadu was very popular, and where is it now? I don't know if Raging Bull is a top netflix choice. I have never heard of Where the Buffalo roams and the less said about Flash Gordon the better.

      Which is to say that I think film is alive and well, and with ability to make films less expensively, and to distribute them, I think we will see an increase in good films, not less. They just may be showing at your local metroplex, or maybe. The Kings Speech, Black Swan, True Grit, were all top grossing film and all original and good work.. Which is why we have to support out local local small film houses. We lost one and it sucks. If you have one, and like good films that are not repetitive drivel, go once in a while.

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    12. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Omestes · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Blade Runner was a huge improvement over the original story.

      In your, completely subjective, opinion at least. I disagree.

      That said, I see Blade Runner and DADoES as separate things, and enjoy both of them roughly equally for completely different reasons. Blade Runner was a stylistic master piece, with pretty much perfect scene making and acting. DADoES was a tilted tragi-comedy with a brooding philosophical bent, and the trademark Philip Dick ambiguity. The story was much much more intellectually satisfying, and pulled off intelligent better (unlike the movies silly unicorn thing), but, like much of Dick's writing, is a bit hit or miss. The story's world comes off more like a sketch than a completed thing. The movie makes up for this in spades, but at the expense of intellectual depth.

      Blade Runner, though, is the second best Dick adaptation (After A Scanner Darkly), and is a brilliant film on its own. If I was stuck on a desert island and could only have one, I would ponder how arbitrary this whole scenario is, and then pick the story.

      Its pretty much the same way I see the LoTR trilogy, the books and the movies are very different beasts, and can be judged separately. It isn't really an either/or thing.

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    13. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by corbettw · · Score: 2

      How the hell does a movie that consists almost entirely of one guy with his hand stuck under a rock cost $18 million???

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    14. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by LetterRip · · Score: 2

      The Kings Speech, Black Swan, True Grit, were all top grossing film and all original and good work.

      True Grit was a remake.

    15. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by chimpo13 · · Score: 2

      Fuck, that'd be great. Decker could have a wacky sidekick played by Gary Busey. They can also solve crimes with a totally hot large breasted actress who knows some kind of space kung-fu. Too bad Sean Young is too old. She's a crackpot as well.

      I'm sensing doom for this project. Maybe they can get Joss Whedon on it. Then abandon it after 6 episodes. Then wonder why it sells so well on DVD and bring it back. Then cancel it. Argh.

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    16. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Grimbleton · · Score: 2

      I didn't talk to an old girlfriend for a week when she adamantly refused to believe that Johnny Cash covered a song by that "shitty band Nine Inch Nails" and insisted that Trent Reznor's rendition was an inferior copy that ruined the song.

    17. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by hairyfeet · · Score: 2

      Hey now, that ain't fair to Willis. Give the man credit he did tell people not to watch Die Hard 4 because they had cut it all to hell trying to get the Spiderman teen dollar (I mean WTF? Spiderman teens aren't going to see Die Hard). I mean when you can't even say the catch phrase because of the rating? Crapola.

      But I have to agree that most of the shit coming out of the Hollywood crap fest is totally shitty rehashes of movies and shows that frankly had ran out of steam ages ago. The last decent action sequel I saw was Iron Man 2, and even then they nuked the fridge in the last 5 minutes (the bots all have timers? The bad guy takes off his battle helmet in the middle of the battle? WTF?).

      Sadly as long as people will pay to see or even play crap, crap will get made. I mean how many CoD and MoH are we up to now? Or Bioshock 2, if there was ever a game that made NO sense having a sequel, it was that. No hanging plot points, no cliffhanger ending, Bioshock 1 was the first game made in ages that wasn't written from the beginning with FRANCHISE written in giant letters hanging over the entire story, so what do they do? Make a sequel...yuck.

      I only hope the ever cheapening tech will save us. It is getting cheaper by the day to make quality games and movies. Sure they won't be special effect powerhouses, but how many times have you said "Movie looked good, plot sucked" in the past 5 years? I'll happily play a game with NOLF II level graphics or a movie with 70s level effects if it brings something new to the table which sadly we just don't see hardly anymore. It is just one cookie cutter sequel after another. yawn.

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    18. Re:That's it, I quit humanity by Agronomist+Cowherd · · Score: 2

      The rock had a good agent...

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  2. Ugh by eegad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Freaking Replicants.

  3. I don't want more life, fucker by Utini420 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This will all end in tears. One way or the other.

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    1. Re:I don't want more life, fucker by grub · · Score: 2


      I'll give you nightmares: imagine if they get George Lucas to do these.

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    2. Re:I don't want more life, fucker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      I have seen things you people wouldn't believe in the original.

      Harrison Ford fighting killer androids.
      Flying cars shimmering over the Los Angeles distopia.

      All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time for a sequel.

    3. Re:I don't want more life, fucker by gstoddart · · Score: 2

      I'll give you nightmares: imagine if they get George Lucas to do these.

      Then we'll all know up-front not to watch it.

      And, seriously, except for re-hashing Star Wars, has Lucas actually been directly involved in making anything lately? IMDB shows his producer credits as mostly related to Star Wars/Indiana Jones re-hashes.

      Thankfully, as a film-maker, Lucas seems to be more or less done doing anything besides collecting royalties.

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  4. Yay! by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 4, Funny

    Blade Runner is a superb film and a sequel is long overdue!

    Besides, what could possibly go wrong?

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    1. Re:Yay! by Creepy · · Score: 2

      True - Highlander 2 made the first movie 10x better. wow - I didn't typing something sarcastic like that could make me physically sick, but it did. Sadly that horrible piece of trash didn't end the series and they made something like 9 more movies, none of which I'll ever see unless they're being used as torture.

  5. The Best of Philip K Dick by C_amiga_fan · · Score: 2

    Blade Runner is actually one of his lesser books. Philip has produced tons of great science-based fiction (and some fantasy):

    http://www.amazon.com/Philip-K-Dick-Collection/dp/1598530496

    The Man in the High Castle (1962)
    Martian Time-Slip (1964)
    The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965)
    Dr. Bloodmoney, or How We Got Along After the Bomb (1965)
    Now Wait for Last Year (1966)
    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
    Ubik (1969)
    Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (1974)
    A Scanner Darkly (1977)
    A Maze of Death (1970)
    VALIS (1981)
    The Divine Invasion (1981)
    The Transmigration of Timothy Archer (1982)

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    1. Re:The Best of Philip K Dick by C_amiga_fan · · Score: 5, Informative

      And short stories of course (not a complete list):
      1. Beyond Lies the Wub
      2. Roog
      3. Paycheck
      4. Second Variety (Screamers)
      5. Imposter
      6. The King of the Elves
      7. Adjustment Team
      8. Foster, You're Dead
      9. Upon the Dull Earth
      10. Autofac
      11. The Minority Report
      12. The Days of Perky Pat
      13. Precious Artifact
      14. A Game of Unchance
      15. We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Total Recall)
      16. Faith of Our Fathers
      17. The Electric Ant
      18. A Little Something For Us Tempunauts
      19. The Exit Door Leads In
      20. Rautavaara's Case
      21. I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
      And some other random ones - Fair Game, The Hanging Stranger, The Eyes have it; The Golden Man; The Turning Wheel; The Last of the Masters; The Father-Thing; Strange Eden; Tony and the Beetles; Null-O; To Serve the Master; Exhibit Piece; The Crawlers; Sales Pitch; Shell Game; Upon the Dull Earth; Foster, you're dead; Pay for the Printer; War Veteran; The Chromium Fence; Second Variety.

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    2. Re:The Best of Philip K Dick by thisnamestoolong · · Score: 2

      I am glad to see PKD getting a little love here on /. While Blade Runner is one of the greatest movies ever made, it is definitely not much of a reflection of the vision of Philip K. Dick (which, as a side note, is a good thing, as the novel that Blade Runner is based off of is one of his weaker works). While many movies have been based off of his books, the only one I have seen that really captures the same feel that his novels induce is A Scanner Darkly. It is seriously awesome and worth checking out. As far as his books go, I would have to say Valis is by far his masterpiece, he draws the reader so deeply into his psychosis that I started feeling like I was losing my mind by the end of the book.

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    3. Re:The Best of Philip K Dick by CFTM · · Score: 3, Informative

      Just an FYI, if you go in to the Adjustment Bureau expecting Adjustment Team you'll be quite disappointed. It's meant to be its own story but uses a similar entity to the adjustment team for controlling events. That's not to say it'll be either good or bad, just that it's really not intended to be a telling of a Dickian story.

    4. Re:The Best of Philip K Dick by Nerdfest · · Score: 2

      I've said it before and I'll say it again. If all you know of him is the movies, then you don't know Dick.

  6. Awesome universe by binarylarry · · Score: 3

    I hope they'll make some movies exploring other areas of the Blade Runner universe. Recasting Deckard, the replicants, etc would be terrible.

    But the universe is awesome, I'd welcome more stories from there.

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  7. In other news.... by Unka+Willbur · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The classic Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" is getting a sequel, a prequel and a reboot... "We feel there's a lot of left to explore in the world of 'Mona Lisa,'" said a greedy scum-sucking banker-type who wouldn't know art if it slapped him upside his swollen ego with a jugged fish,.

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    1. Re:In other news.... by SirGarlon · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually it is very common for painters even today to paint their own variations and re-interpretations of Mona Lisa. It's called a "study." Of course, it's different. The challenge in a study is to bring something new and create new art based on the same subject.

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  8. Moderately obscure question: by Even+on+Slashdot+FOE · · Score: 2

    Can they get the rights to have the fictional band Priss and the Replicants in at least one of these? It would be hilarious for those of us that get the joke.

  9. Movie sequel books by greg1104 · · Score: 2

    K. W. Jeter published two attempts at writing a sequel to Blade Runner, inspired by the movie rather than PKD's original novel. The Edge of Human and Replicant Night waver along the edge between mediocre and horrifying throughout. I have little hope for a movie to do better.

  10. Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human by naz404 · · Score: 3

    I found the official sequel, Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human by K.W. Jeter (one of Philip K. Dick's good friends and the guy who coined the term "steampunk") to be a pretty decent read. Why don't they option that?

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    1. Re:Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 2

      Because this is Hollywood. "Good" (or even "decent") is irrelevant.

    2. Re:Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human by Chris+Burke · · Score: 2

      I was a bit young-ish when I saw it when originally released in the movie theater. I was then, expecting more star war-ish.

      I've seen it as an adult...and again, so far, never been that impressed with it. I have never been overwhelmed with the special effects, even back then. It seems to move slow and boring to me.

      The movie is slow moving, and doesn't even try to overwhelm you with special effects. It is not anything like Star Wars or Aliens or any other action sci-fi you may have seen. If that's what you wanted, and even as an adult it sounds like that's the case, then it's absolutely no surprise that you found it boring.

      What are you missing? The thing that makes sci-fi (as opposed to space opera) interesting -- the human questions. What is it to be human? How do we know we are? What are memories but pictures that we cling to? How long a life must we lead for it to be worthwhile? And so on. Sci-fi, especially as practiced by PKD, uses future technology as a mirror to look at ourselves.

      It's okay to think it's boring, though, if you don't like that kind of slow moving thoughtful movie. A lot of people think 2001: A Space Odyssey is boring, and while I love the movie, I can't really tell them they're wrong.

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  11. Re:sacrilege ! by greg1104 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The only surprise is that they're talking about new material inspired by Blade Runner, rather than planning a "even more gritty reboot!" of the original movie.

  12. What ???? by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sequels and Prequels of Blade Runner, and Ridley Scott may or may not be involved???

    So, they're going to make generic sci-fi movies that loosely relate to Blade Runner, and that none of the fans of the original will care about seeing ... and people who didn't like/didn't see the original won't care about seeing.

    Who do they expect to be watching this? They better have damned good screen plays for this, or they're throwing money down a hole trying to capitalize on the legacy of a good movie only to find out they don't have an audience.

    This has all the potential to become a complete flop. I'll stick with my director's cut of the original unless I hear some really compelling reasons that this isn't going to be crap.

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    1. Re:What ???? by MrNemesis · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Even with great scripts, I doubt the production design would be up to much. Never before and never since had a I seen a sci-fi universe brought to life with such confidence, style and scope - and that in itself was a crucial part of the Blade Runner story. Awesome vision from Scott plus Trumbull and team at the absolute peak of their powers, and one of the last epic films to make extensive use of models before the CGI revolution kicked in.

      Heck, when was the last time you saw a film that was even as well *lit* as Blade Runner?

      Making a film as artistically distinct as Blade Runner appears to be a dead art. Or rather a type of art that no-one is willing to finance. Not that I'm saying Blade Runner was all about the effects, it wasn't, but damn if they didn't almost singlehandedly define the visuals of the genre for a generation to come.

      Chances of requels/prequels/sequels/bleaquels having the same effect? Nil.

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  13. Re:To quote another movie that shouldn't've been m by naz404 · · Score: 4, Funny

    <vader>

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    </vader>

    fixed that for you.

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  14. This will not end well. by 0111+1110 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Alcon Entertainment has previously produced 19 other films, including The Blind Side, Insomnia, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pant, P.S. I Love You and the post apocalyptic science fiction film The Book of Eli, which starred Denzel Washington.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcon_Entertainment

    Lost & Found
    My Dog Skip
    The Affair of the Necklace
    Insomnia
    Love Don't Cost a Thing
    Chasing Liberty
    Racing Stripes
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    16 Blocks
    The Wicker Man
    P.S. I Love You
    One Missed Call
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2
    The Blind Side
    The Book of Eli
    Lottery Ticket

    No. This will not end well. Although, to be fair, Insomnia was not bad. It's just that the Norwegian original was much, much better. The remake was not necessary. We can only pray that these jokers choose a decent writer and director for like the first time in their lives. This should have been tagged with "whatcouldpossiblygowrong".

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    1. Re:This will not end well. by spinninggears · · Score: 2

      So Alcon was responsible for the remake of "The Wicker Man", huh? The original is a classic of the genre, the remake is endlessly mocked as one of the worst films ever. This is clearly not a group of people that should be entrusted with Bladerunner.

  15. Re:Prequel name votes... by Quiet_Desperation · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blade Walker, Mars Ranger

    Blade, the direct descendant of Cordell Walker, Texas Ranger, enforces the law and hunts renegade replicants in the wild frontier of an offworld colony on Mars.

  16. Re:To state the obvious ... by elrous0 · · Score: 2

    Yeah, but they were *3D* smurfs!

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  17. Re:sacrilege ! by Johnny+Mnemonic · · Score: 3, Informative


    Are Hollywood writers so creatively bankrupt

    Hollywood thinks so little of writers that they don't even credit them. They'll credit the Key Grip, for xchrist sakes. And the caterer. But not the writers. The story is a ancillary concern to the 'splosions. And here we are.

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  18. Re:NNNNooooooooo! by Issarlk · · Score: 2

    I'd like them to film the sequel to The Passion of the Christ. Now that would be interesting.

    I can see the poster already. "Jesus II." "No man, no law, no war can stop him".