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Harrison Ford To Return In Blade Runner Sequel

Posted by Soulskill on from the geriaction-heroes dept.

An anonymous reader sends news that Harrison Ford is now confirmed to be returning as Rick Deckard in the upcoming sequel to Blade Runner. Ridley Scott is now officially an executive producer for the film as well, and Denis Villeneuve will direct. It's set to begin production in the summer of 2016.

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  1. Re:I Have Plans Now by slashmydots · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's old school. You have to fly a drone over the filming location. Then you can upload and all aerial bootleg version to a torrent site before they're even done filming it.

  2. Highlander 2 by DiamondGeezer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Highlander 2 Highlander 2 Highlander 2

    That's all I'm saying

    Highlander 2

    Now that's out of my Highlander 2 system I can look Highlander 2 forward to this new movie.

    Highlander 2

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    Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
    1. Re:Highlander 2 by stjobe · · Score: 5, Funny

      There was a sequel to Highlander?

      No. "There can be only one", remember?

      --
      "Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
  3. Re:Oh God No... by wierd_w · · Score: 5, Funny

    $ sh ./horridplotgen.sh

    Welcome to the horrid movie plot generator!
    Is this a sequel? [y/n] y
    To which classic movie or series? [list for options] Bladerunner
    What is the path for the entropy source? /dev/urandom
    Quality level? [list for options] list
    Passable Ok Meh Bad Terrible Hollywood
    Quality level? [list for options] Hollywood
    *************
    WARNING!
    You have selected "Hollywood"-- This will skip the rest of the configuration section, and set Hollywood defaults!
    Are you sure? [y/n] y

    Getting Bladerunner script from repository ......Done
    Training Markov chain engines ......Done
    Loading Hollywood_Sequel rules and preset defaults
    Done
    Confabulating plot synopsis ............Done

    Review generated plot blurb before full scriipt generation? [y/n] y
    ------
    After escaping from Tyrell towers with Rachel, Deckard attempts to flee the Earth with her to live on one of the remote colonies, fearing that another Blade Runner would submit Rachel to a "Voight-Kampff" test, and positively identify her as a replicant at some point if the pair remained on Earth. Rachel, now pregnant with Deckard's love child, must help Deckard fight their way off world as nosy officials and investigators attempt to detain them for their involvement in the events in Blade Runner leading to Tyrell's death, and the possibility that the replicants may have been successful in appropriating a means of circumventing their expiration dates and clandestinely transmitted the information offworld. Fearing the worst if Rachel is discovered, She and Deckard secretly depart earth aboard a cargo freighter headed for the Vega colony. There, he and Rachel welcome the birth of their half-replicant son, David, who is born with enhanced physical speed and strength. Many years later, Rachel begins to show signs of unanticipated complications of her replicant physiology due to being alive for so long. The three return to earth seeking answers from the archives of the financial remains of the once mighty Tyrell corporation, which has since fallen under the control of one of Earth's other mega-corporations; One specializing in military hardware and wetware. While on Earth, David makes hip, edgy teenage friends on the rough streets of LA, who help him and his father after the two help them resolve a long-standing gang turf war.
    -------
    Continue with script generation? [y/n] n
    Delete all temporary files and evidence?[y/n] y
    Done