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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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Oh cool, I loved his work in St Wars!
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.
I don't think his character survived the first one, something to do with the main plot.
Seriously though, he's great and all, and I'm sure they could have come up with some excuse that they had a bunch of copies of the Roy Batty model and they actually had a life extension procedure for him or they aged him for some purpose, but I'd rather they didn't do a rehash of all the same characters just for the sake of nostalgia.
Hey I have an idea, maybe Gosling is Deckard's son in this one, and he kills and drops him into some deep chasm because he has daddy issues.
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?
I thought of a plot line a while ago, when the sequel was announced, that Hauer could be involved as the now-aged human that the Roy Batty model was based on. That would give the scriptwriter/s free reign to make his character whatever they wanted - he wouldn't have to be "Roy Batty". I don't recall anything from the first movie that said Tyrell didn't use real humans as development models for the replicants.
Wouldn't it make sense to start with the DNA of a human, and modify it, rather than try to build a replicant "from the ground up"?
They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
Harris Ford. Harris? Fire an editor. Seriously.
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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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.
(Well I might grab a torrent once the DVD is released).
Yup. Anything deemed not worth paying for is stuff you're allowed to steal. It's right there in the constitution.
Stupid sexy Flanders.
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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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.
Maybe this one will actually follow the story of the Philip K Dick book the first one was supposed to be based on.
Maybe this one will actually follow the K W Jeter screenplay that the first one was supposed to be based on.