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Official Blade Runner 2036 Short Film Bridges the Gap Between the Sequel and the Original (nerdist.com)
Between the events of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, much has happened in the dystopian, neo-Los Angeles future, including the era of replicant prohibition. To help bridge the first Blade Runner, which was released in 1982, with Blade Runner 2049, director Luke Scott has created a short film (YouTube) that examines Niander Wallace's role in the decision to overturn the prohibition ruling. From an article, shared by several readers: As explained by Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve in the introduction for this video, he invited a few filmmakers to create three shorts that set the stage for his film. Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn was directed by Luke Scott, and it reveals that Replicant technology was outlawed in the intervening years. That can't be considered too much of a surprise, considering the Replicants of 2019 were able to elude conventional detection. The short officially introduces Jared Leto's Niander Wallace, as he makes a personal request to repeal the anti-Replicant laws. In reality, Wallace had no intention of abiding by those rules, and he's already created at least one new Replicant whom he describes as an "angel." Intriguingly, Wallace argues that the new Replicants are necessary for humanity's survival in the off-world colonies, and he promises that his Replicants will never rebel and will only obey. But we've heard that promise before! And it never ends well.
So this does for Bladerunner what Animatrix did for the Matrix?
Is this how an aging director ruins his own film?
love is just extroverted narcissism
What sequel?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
If I need a short film to explain the next film, I think I'll pass.
I watched Blade Runner in 1982 and it wasn't explained to me before I went in. The joy is in figuring things out for yourself, not having it spoon fed.
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... it struck me as being terribly directed, with poor choice of camera angles, not very good editing and all. I just couldn't get fully immersed into the short until - I won't spoil it - a certain significant thing happened at the end. I hope that the main Bladerunner film by Dennis Villeneuve is far better directed than this. Ridley Scott's original Bladerunner was masterfully framed and lit, with many beautifully composed scenes and still looks good today. I hope that Villeneuve can live up to that mastery.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
I hate the movie Blade Runner. There, I said it.
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It has no new ideas.
Blade Runner was pleasing to the eyes, ears and intellect. It set off many pleasing gongs of meaning that resonated with each other.
This short makes it seem that it's going to be mindless action-fodder. The Slashdot summary describes all the meaning in the short perfectly -- it's that shallow.
"You should never doubt what nobody is sure about." -- Willy Wonka
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Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
made me lose hope for 80s sequels or remakes.
it is very sad that they can't seem to fit science and plausability into their plot and instead of go what looks cool, same for new star trek movies..
which is kind of amazing considering what kind of pop fun the originals were. it's a real achievement that the old movies, even total recall, seem like "hard scifi" now. I mean, where the fuck do they recruit their writers nowadays? where do they find people who think that putting an elevator through the earth is good scifi? it makes no sense at all even if you could do it. mining on mars even makes more sense. meddling with the brain makes more sense. even global dystopia makes more sense but shuffling workers through the earth directly makes absolutely fucking no sense at all - just building housing in the first few km of the hole would make a lot more sense by itself!
where do they think that it's a good idea to introduce cellphones that can talk over lightyears and teleporters into star trek? once it is in there if you ignore their existence it just seems like having motorbikes in a western series and then just forgetting they exist for the rest of the show.
at least scott isnt directly involved in this - old ridley can't figure out the plot of his own movies until after few months AFTER it hit the theaters nowadays ffs (prome and cove are tripe - proven by the amount of theory videos on youtube about them, even the people who look them 100 times and ask from scott directly can't figure out the overall plots on how they would make sense so they make up theories on how they make sense, even if the stuff they make theories from are just stuff like what was changed only to look cool - also it's a proven fact that scott had not figured out how the overall plot over the prequels would go and is instead just making shit up as he goes).
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Some group of officials doesn't like replicants and Jared Leto wants replicants and has supposedly done something special with them.
I don't really understand how this "bridges" the gap. I kind of expected a scene which did more to create back story for the larger Blade Runner universe -- political changes, corporate changes, whatever. Or maybe an explanation how after the death of Tyrel we still have Bladerunners on Earth?
Isn't he that absolutely horrible Joker from Suicide Squad?