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Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 (theverge.com)
The sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic "Blade Runner" is officially titled "Blade Runner 2049." Harris Ford is confirmed to be returning as Rick Deckard. Other stars include Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Lennie James. The Verge reports: There's a hashtag included in the press release, of course (#BladeRunner2049), but other than that there's little else revealed about the story itself. There is a new picture out, however, with Scott, Villeneuve, Gosling, and Harrison Ford chatting over some Blade Runner weaponry. Whether you like or hate the new title will most likely depend on how excited you are about knowing the exact year that the new film takes place. The original was set in 2019, so it's good that they're tacking on an extra 30 years because the Los Angeles of today really doesn't look anything like the dystopian vision Scott wowed audiences with way back when. But hey -- there's still time. Blade Runner 2049 is scheduled to arrive in theaters on October 6th, 2017.
San Francisco Rush 2049 was hella fun, so I anticipate this will be a really top-notch entertainment.
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maybe firearms go digital/electronic or something besides analog gunpowder.
Bladerunner is probably my favourite Science Fiction movie but if they call it "Bladerunner 2049" I probably won't bother.
(Well I might grab a torrent once the DVD is released).
No Rutger Hauer?
love is just extroverted narcissism
driving me batty
Oh cool, I loved his work in St Wars!
Already fucked with that hack Jared Leto in it. FFS.
I've tried to watch the first movie several times, I fall asleep every time.
Besides, he's a Replicant, and they die after four years.
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Yeah, totally. When I think of a classic cinematic science fiction masterpiece, with an amazing score and even more amazing soliloquy at the end making us confront what it means to be human, I don't think Blade Runner. I'm thinking maybe something staring The Rock, where he's an ace starfighter pilot, but one day his ten year old nephew stows away aboard his ship and hilarity and action ensues. Maybe they land on a planet inhabited by enemy sentient dinosaurs, but there's a really cute young one that befriends the nephew for even more hi-jinks.
Yeah. THAT'S science fiction right there.
LOL. He said "Dick".
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
How old will Harrison Ford be in 2049?
I'm in my mid-40s, but I had never watched Blade Runner until very recently when I heard they were making a sequel. To be honest I did think it was a very good movie and I don't understand why a sequel is being made. Is most of the appeal some sort of nostalgia? What am I missing?
is it going to suck.
So, he's a Replicant. Replicate another.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
I guess I missed Blade Runner 2 through Blade Runner 2048. Worth binging on Netflix?
Harris Ford. Harris? Fire an editor. Seriously.
I tried watching the first one a few times, but could never make it past 30 minutes because I couldn't see anything.
Hollywood replicants are easy to spot. They cost considerably more than the real thing, are hyped for months, and suck.
no, the broadcast television networks censored the death scenes.
apparently it was disturbing to the parents of children (even though children are busy killing each other in the streets.)
Given how old Ford is, and assuming they don't use some crappy CGI to make him look young, this should put to bed the theory that Decker was a replicant. Though I guess they could spin it that he's wearing makeup etc. Hopefully, they'll just tie up the loose end.
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This is Slashdot. There is no expectation that editors will even read what they post, let alone check for accuracy. Based on seeing the same editors post error riddled stuff over and over, they are never fired either. If any do get fired, I want the job next. I've always wanted a job that involved no manual labor and no mental labor.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Hollywood needs to grow a pair, take a small risk, and start making original movies again. The constant recycling of old film franchises as a cynical cash grab is boring and tiresome, and leaves a permanent stain on history that can't be ignored (Star Wars is the obvious example).
Just leave Blade Runner alone. It doesn't need a sequel.
He'll be fighting off evil replicant nurses with bedpans.
"Back when I was a young whipper-snapper, I'd fuck nurses like you until you short-circuited, and you'd love it!"
Table-ized A.I.
Without Sean Young (or equivalent eye candy) it won't be worth watching.
Besides, I really want to know what happened to her character.
It took me a long time (being rather thick I suppose), but after Star Wars, The Matrix, Highlander, etc. etc., I finally learned to never, ever, see a sequel/prequel to a great movie (or series in the Case of Star Wars) when such a prequel or sequel could RUIN the previous experience. I will never see this movie, regardless of reviews. The next Pacific Rim? Sure! The next Avatar? Absolutely. Why? Because those movies are pure fun, and that's all. It's matters little (or nothing) if sequels / prequels trod on the cannon, retcon all the hell over the place, make no sense, or have terrible acting, writing or directing. None of those things would actually ruin the originals. But Blade Runner? It's just too good, too damn perfect, to ever risk seeing the sequel.
Yeah, Blade Runner had better public transit.
I watched BRI (blade runner 1) many times just for that scene! In fact, I made my own clear plastic raincoat that looks like the one in the movie!
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The movie so sucked I lost interest in the TV series which was some of the best manga I a long time.
Aluminum Mallard.
Because seriously Roger Wilco was a far bigger badass for surviving all those games, given what a lazy klutz he was! :)
Is this going to be like the excelent Bluesbrothers 2000?
Maybe this one will actually follow the story of the Philip K Dick book the first one was supposed to be based on.
Well, at least Bill Hogue... Bounty Bob is a fictional character.
I can't be the only one who thought of this reference.... ? Excellent game of it's time. Use your google-fu!
Hopefully they make a worthy sequel and do little damage to the original.
Still can't bring myself to watch the remake of Total Recall. Some directors/producers just have no appreciation for the classics.
What is Blade Runner without Vangelis?
I hope they do as much diversity as they did with Ghostbusters, because that worked out great.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
I'm going to write and make a film called "Film of the Year - 5 Stars". It can't fail to become a hit with a name like that.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
I can't wait for the scene with Deckard in the refrigerator.
Besides, he's a Replicant, and they die after four years.
She has no time limit, in my own head canon, he doesn't either. "More human than human is our motto." Why manufacture limited replicants when you can just release pre-programed replicants into the wild with the needed desire and skills to provide for themselves and then produce and train more, new replicants? The Bladerunner world is having issues. Animals are in short supply and so are humans. There are so few humans that they need to encourage them with helper replicants to even move off world. If humans are in that short of supply, why not just cut them out and move out replicants to preform all the jobs? In the long term, they may be all that are left.
We all remember how masterful Prometheus was as a sequel to Alien. That went over as well. I am sure that the Blade Runner sequel will be just as great. Prometheus had such great attention to detail, what a work of art it was. Stanley Kubrick is rolling over in envy in his grave with envy.
this!
I'm expecting either the best film ever made or something in which all executives at the studio should be lined up against the wall. Either/or, please - make it great or make it suck, just don't make it ordinary.
Are we sure 2049 isn't actually the release date? Has this joke been made already?
I would have thought they'd call it "Blade Runner 2: Electric Sheep Boogaloo."
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They used 2049 because the actors look 30 years older now.