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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. So is he a replicant, or not? by sideslash · · Score: 3, Informative

    (Spoiler alert: If you don't know this stuff, then... what are you doing on Slashdot?)

    They'd better be careful how they handle this. It's supposed to be decades into the future, and thus after Deckard and Rachel are both supposed to be dead by their targeted end of life engineering as replicants. You know: "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?"

    Maybe he will be a different iteration of Deckard, i.e. another replicant clone or something.

    1. Re:So is he a replicant, or not? by stjobe · · Score: 3, Informative

      Deckard and Rachel are both supposed to be dead by their targeted end of life engineering as replicants.

      Only the Nexus 6 replicants had targeted end of life (the 4-year lifespan).

      Deckard and Rachel can thus not be Nexus 6 replicants if they're still alive 4 years later, but they CAN still be another version of replicant .

      You know: "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?".

      Humans have an end of life too, you know? We're not exactly immortal.

      --
      "Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley
  2. Re:Oh God No... by MouseR · · Score: 4, Informative

    It was not said that ALL replicants live four years. The Nexus 6 were. But Decker and Rachel where not N6s.

  3. Re:I Have Plans Now by gstoddart · · Score: 4, Informative

    I know I was disappointed as a kid when it came out originally in theaters, I was expecting something like Star Wars and it wasn't that.

    And that's kind of the problem ... Blade Runner would be a terrible movie to a kid.

    The appeal of Blade Runner was, in part, the world they created: gritty, dark, decaying -- contrasted with the high-tech world of the wealthy. The story was much more sophisticated than a kid is going to get, it's definitely not space opera -- and understanding some of the stuff which is more insinuated than stated is a lot harder.

    For me, the one labelled "The Director's Cut" restores some of the film noire elements, does a little more filling in the gaps, and makes more sense. The theatrical version lost some stuff in translation and dumbed it down a little.

    I see there's now a "Definitive Edition", but I've not seen it and don't know much about it.

    Find the Director's cut, and pay special attention to the things which suggest Decker is a replicant (sorry if that's a spoiler, but I assume this has been well known for a very long time), and have fun.

    IMO, it really is a damned fine movie.

    --
    Lost at C:>. Found at C.
  4. Re:Oh God No... by moeinvt · · Score: 3, Informative

    The unicorn dream is obviously the strongest bit of evidence that Deckard is a replicant.

    There's also the little hint when Rachael asks him if he's ever taken the VK test himself.

    When the police first hire him, he's told that SIX replicants hijacked the shuttle and one got fried running through a force field. He then gets info about Leon, Roy, Pris and Zora ... so where's #6?

    Deckard always seems to be physically out-classed by the replicants, which is evidence that he's not one of them, but he also takes a hell of a beating, which indicates that he might be.

    Gaff tells Deckard "You've done a man's job."