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Blade Runner 2 Script Done, Harrison Ford Says "the Best Ever"
BarbaraHudson (3785311) writes "It's been more than 30 years, but finally the script for Blade Runner 2 is done. Original interview with Ridley Scott on MTV. Links for those who don't want to watch the interview. If you're worried that the upcoming Blade Runner sequel won't measure up to the 1982 sci-fi cult classic, rest assured. Harrison Ford apparently thinks the script is "the best thing (he's) ever read." Although Scott is debating whether or not he'll direct the sequel, it looks like Ford will most certainly be reprising his role as Rick Deckard."
Did Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep have a sequel?
Having seen blade runner myself, surely I am capable of judging the finished product without having to take the word of someone who has achieved fame by some method other than judging movie scripts?
From a man who starred in such unwatchable turds as "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"and "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"?
Shoot, those movies were just plain BAD. And that is NOT the kind of recommendation I expect for a new movie.
And before you flame me: yes, Harrisson Ford was in a shitload of great movies. But his glory days are over, and have been over, for at least 10 years now.
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This from the guy that did "Firewall"??? LOL... Right on, dude! Right on!
well, isn't that expected?
Why drag it out? Oh, it's MPAA trying so suck a dead horse.
You best work is behind you. Trashing your successes in this way only makes you look bad. At least do something original, rather than Alien 1.1, etc.
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Harrison Ford apparently thinks the script is "the best thing (he's) ever read."
I'll wait for Buster Friendly to weigh in on the truth of that.
In the meantime, just go and do your task, even though you know it's wrong.
No, but post prime actors and directors do. So do Hollywood execs. Hell Get JJ. Abrams on board and add a bunch of lens flare.
Silence is a state of mime.
Well, of course he does.
It doesn't matter so much what Darren Wilson said either. Let the evidence... or the movie in this case... do the talking.
Than be constructive. Ridley Scott is one of my favourite directors and aliens is one of the best movies ever made as well as blade runner. I personally can't wait to see the sequel.
I'm glad Ridley doesn't read the press and just focuses on what he does well. Fuck the haters that can criticise everything like blade runner why don't they produce something good instead? Because they fucking can't, fuck them!
The guy that did Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull says something's "the Best Ever"?
I'm ready to start lobbying to have Blade Runner 2 declared a war crime just based on that alone.
Every script is "the best I've ever read" when movie people talk about whatever they're being asked about.
It seems Ridley Scott will probably have to answer the question whether Deckard is a replicant. How will it be explained that he looks more than 30 years older? Nexus-6s didn't manifestly age but simply expired after four years. Maybe he's a Nexus-7. Or, woops, maybe he's human after all.
It's way better than the Blade Runner movie, although the movie depicts the feel of the environment incredibly well. The story is pretty thin, though, compared with Dick's story. Dick turned down an option to write a "dumbed-down" (that is, change the Rosen Corporation's name to Tyrell Corporation, wink wink nudge nudge!) version of his story for publication with the movie release.
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Ok, so Ford is going to be Deckard again.
He is quite a bit older now. Since Replicants live short lives, and Deckard is a Replicant, how is this going to be reconciled in the movie?
I don't see how. Not unless we stick Ford into one of Larry Niven's autodocs.
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There is the problem of just how replicants 'escape', conspiracies abounding.
Deckard may be recreated every 4 years or so, with his last memories intact, an interesting way to use replicants.
Time for two or more Deckards? On than one planet?
Time for more Rachels? Or just the same one over and over?
Who's running Tyrell?
If the recycled Deckard gets older, that satisfies his own self-doubt about his nature. Cover for his replicantism. And he can always be left dead if he gets too close to the truth.
And he could be a minor character in the continuing story...
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
That would be an interesting answer.
Turns out its HIS rogue cyberprostate. He is forced to battle himself in an epic final scene. The things that prostate saw. Attack shits on fire.
I am sure they'll find a way to butcher it. They've managed to butcher everything else from my childhood.
That should read, "ROB Ford says 'The Best Ever!!!' "
I wish I was as awesome as you. :'( I bet you're knee deep in poon!
Enough said.
I'll wait for the Netflix release.
The Indiana Jones movies do not hold up over time. I watched the first three over recently and they do not old up - they seemed just as cheesy as Crystal Skull - actually, Crystal Skull is the best of the movies.
I guess my memory of them from the 80s was better than the actual movies.
Yeah, just like Prometheus was the "best ever" sequel to Alien!
In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Here's the plot, on Wikipedia. BladeRunner was powerful because it introduced an interesting world, and told a story while exploring that world. Some of the best scenes revolved around the Voight Kampff test, and they were successful in part because the audience was being introduced to the test, and how a replicant would respond to it.
In the sequel, the story will have to be much more powerful because the world is already introduced. From what I see in Wikipedia, it's not going to do it (which is not surprising, because it is by a different author).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
You care what Harrison Ford thinks because the studios pay for PR and we all know that PR is objective evidence that mass media works.
Do you feel your knees jerking in the direction of the nearest cinema screen yet?
Especially since Harrison Ford praises the script. I wonder what his opinion was regarding the Indiana Jones IV script.
but it was really just a test designed to provoke an emotional response.
He looked tired and bored in the last Indy movie. He had better not do that again in the new Blade Runner movie.
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Now I know how terrified fans of Star Wars are...
So if he likes this one, it'll suck.
It's too bad she won't live, but then again who does?
Do we really need a stupid sequel to this?
"It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does? You do, baby! You do!"
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I loved the shit out of that man as a kid, teenager and early adult.
Then I listened to several of his interviews, his passion for film is virtually "show me the money" when it came to Indy 4, I recall him pimping it, I also recall him saying "ahh they'll fix shit in editing / post" kind of stuff. He hates the Han Shot first stuff and he frankly, comes off as a phony to me.
Loved him in SW and the (only) 3 Indy movies made but the man isn't exactly into the universes of the films he creates.
Don't believe me? Go seek out some of the interviews in the last 15 years.
Ridley Scott is one of my favourite directors and aliens is one of the best movies ever made
Ridley Scott directed Alien. James Cameron wrote and directed Aliens.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.
In 1982 it was a minority opinion, but definitely existed.
I know because I saw the original release in the theater twice, and I and my friends argued about it at the time.
If Batty is more human than human ... then it stands to reason that other replicants may be less human than human, and a whole range of possibilities across all characteristics, personality traits, talents, etc.
Because if humans are rich in variety (and they are) replicants even more so. And sometimes less so.
Its replicants all the way down man!
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Harrison Ford always pimps the movies he is in when they are coming out. Just recall or go look it up. Since it's in the contract and he is essentially PAID to promote it all he can do is soften the required praise he gives. After Indie 4 he probably feels the need for stronger support since his taste is continues to prove not so great.
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"BR2: Blade Roller"
A geriatric and now wheelchair-bound Rick Deckard is called back to "retire" a collection of aging replicants whose superhuman abilities are wreaking havoc on cruise ships, nursing homes, and bingo parlors everywhere.
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Just no.
Not another 3rd rate 3d movie with no plot
Besides, his eyes are shown to display the same refractive property (the red glow) as all the other replicants including the owl in Tyrell's office.
Sure, sure... That's why they just shine a flashlight into someone's eyes to see if they are a replicant.
Phew... And here I feared there'd have to use some kind of a complicated multi-hour psychobabble test about empathy, memories and baby spiders.
A test, during which, a camera shines a bright red light into their eyes.
A test, during which, they pull the shades down as it is too bright in the room to do the test.
Which shades out the light from the Sun - which just happens to shine in the owl's ONE red glowing eye.
Which is funny, and must be some kind of error in the filming, a goof if you will, cause when the owl turns around NOW IT'S THE OTHER EYE THAT IS GLOWING.
And as we " know " that the red glow is actually an indicator of replicantness and NOT just the light of the Sun reflecting - it must be a goof by a well known hackfraud Ridley Scott.
But the most hilarious bit in these discussions about Deckard being a replicant is that should we accept those arguments to be true (regardless of logic or veracity) - they make BR into a shitty movie and reveal Scott to be a crappy director. And the whole thing is pushed by none other than him.
Why is that a shitty movie?
Cause human Decard showing empathy for toasters (which is what replicants are after all - just a machine with a timer which tells them what to do and when) emphasizes his HUMANITY.
Deckard's reluctance to return to the job, him falling for Rachel, him being afraid of Batty and then sharing in his final moment - it's all a show of his humanity.
And, the audience being human, it recognizes its own humanity in his.
A toaster pretending to be reluctant (it has no feelings - it's just a preprogrammed toaster) chasing a toaster, who does not want to be a toaster and wants to be a real boy/girl, pretending to fall for a toaster who thinks it's a real girl but finds out it is only a toaster, then pretends to be afraid, pretending to understand a toaster having a pretend moment... there is EXPLICITLY nothing to relate to in such a story.
Further more, it's an equivalent of a movie where the director shows the audience a man eating a juicy cake - and then tells the audience after credits that the cake is actually made of feces.
It is a movie which implies that the audience is stupid for assuming that what they are seeing is true.
Only, when that truth is empathy and humanity, Scott is actually trying to berate the audience for BEING HUMAN.
Either way, he comes of as an idiot. A George Lucas without all the toys.
He has issues. His brother CLEARLY had issues as well, maybe it runs in the family.
But Ridley's are more along the lines of some obsessive compulsive disorder combined with confidence issues.
He keeps second guessing his own work and taking any criticism at face value and as absolute judgment of quality.
Which is why so many of his movies end up with half the footage on the cutting floor.
The making of featurette of The Legend is very revealing of his flaws.
It's not that he will cut up the movie cause he heard some potheads snickering in the audience - it's how he will plunge openminded into any nonsense anyone suggests. Cause it will work in his mind at the moment.
"At the moment" being the operative term - as a single question later he will throw it out.
Though a moment ago he was all into scrapping half the movie and starting it over with l
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...rest assured. Harrison Ford apparently thinks the script is "the best thing (he's) ever read."
On the other hand, he also starred in 'The Crystal Skull', one of the most appaling disappointments I've seen, after enjoying the first Indiana Jones movies. Harrison Ford had a wonderful self-irony in the first movies, but in the last one he seems to take himself so serious that it's impossible to enjoy the action.
Aparently his last movie, Exodus, is crap. ... I hope he doesn't screw this up.
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Is Vangelis on board? I am so not interested without the music of Vangelis.
Harrison Ford is 72 years old! You better freeze him in carbonite before he croaks.
It turns out that Philip K. Dick is the replicant.
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Crystal Skull.
Also if you know anything about him he was a carpenter on the original Star Wars set not even an actor. He's a running example of winning a life long lottery for dumb luck.
For a character who only had 4 more years to live max?
Ridley Scott's Alien and Blade Runner are gorgeous, meticulously put-together films. I have no idea why his later films came out so horribly, like Prometheus. About the only director at this time who can instill a sense of wonder is Shane Carruth. Throw him into the mix and it will be good. Don't make the film a special effects fiesta. Some subtle bits here and there. And please, please do not call it "Blade Runner 2". You are begging for a bad film at that point.
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Isn't anyone concerned that similar things were said about Indy 4 before it was released?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
Knee deep in poon? First posting while being born! My hat is off to the original AC!
They're paying me megabucks just to do some pre-teaser PR, and it soothes my ego as an aging movie co-star and former heavy.
I for one am excited. And I do sincerely hope they are doing this because they want to, you know?
I'm sorry for things not having worked out well with out differences. I wish they could have gone better.
Please do call it Blade Runner 2. The nonsense of muddying up the sequence of films by not doing that is irritating.
Well, I might have a way, but it only works on a semi spherical planet in a vacuum.
Ford played a role in the recent Expendables 3 movie. Seems to me there is little room for credibility in Ford's opinions.
I'm agnostic but I really liked that movie. I think it really captured what it means to live to that religious principle because it showed both the right and wrong way to do it. Was the director's cut really that good? I might have to check it out.
I RECOMMEND ALL THE FANS READ BLADERUNNER 2, and 3, and 4. "BLADERUNNER 2", is my favorite. Youll never guess how B2 will end. They are great books! Guaranteed to melt & exhaust your brain ;)
"BLADERUNNER 3", is a little anti climactic, but its still good. One of these days, ill read "BLADERUNNER 4: Eye and Talon". Right now, I just don't have the gumption to do so .
...from arguing a metaphor through various attempts at insults to having no clue about what you are talking (nope... that's not art) and steering off down that tangent road into the sunset of irrelevant conclusions and off topic.
Also, you're trolling.
So... Hey, you know what?
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LOL, downmods. That's the vapid kids today, all right. Put facts in front of their nose that they can't argue with, and they click the "I hate you" arrow.
Pussies.
I could see a story where as a Replicant, his cells were programmed to appear to age as the years went by for the same reason they would implant false memories - to keep the unit thinking it was human and able to do it's job
OR they could ditch that train of thought and just say he was never a Replicant in the first place like most of non-geek America believes, but making him one gives a lot of room for the plot to be better than him just coming back out of retirement to hunt more skinjobs
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