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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. Oh God No... by Lord_Frederick · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please don't give this classic movie the crystal skull treatment. It doesn't deserve that.

    1. 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

    2. Re:Oh God No... by Plunky · · Score: 5, Insightful

      And, unless they somehow account for how Deckard the replicant has grown old ... I just don't see how they get there at all. He's not just a hunter of them, he is one.

      So either they start this one in which Deckard isn't a replicant, and they'll piss off the fans of the movie. Or they'll have to treat very carefully to explain it.

      Of course, there is an easy way around this.. just because it is now 30+ years after the release of Blade Runner, doesn't mean that this amount of time has passed in that world. Deckard could only be 3 years older, and be deteriorating rapidly.

    3. Re:Oh God No... by arth1 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Leon puts his hand in freezing liquid without a problem.

      Pris puts her hand in boiling water without a problem.

      I always thought those were more to show that the replicants had more control over their human++ bodies, being able to bypass feeling pain, or inflict it on themselves voluntarily, like Roy Batty did with the nail.

      It would be interesting to see a Blade Runner 2 with Sean Young. What I don't want to see is yet another long overdue sequel where they have kept the male characters but replaced the female characters with younger eye candy. For some reason, women aging appears to be a taboo in Hollywood, and one I thinks needs to die.

  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?

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      "Total destruction the only solution" - Bob Marley