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November 06, 2011

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Film director Ridley Scott plans to make a follow-up to his groundbreaking 1982 classic, Blade Runner.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Scott said he is on board to direct a follow-up and has been interviewing writers who can help him with the screenplay. Scott says the new project is “liable to be a sequel.”

Scott, 74 years old, recently finished shooting the sci-fi movie Prometheus and is an executive producer of a new TV series on Discovery Communications Inc.’s Science Channel, Prophets of Science Fiction.

Earlier this year, production company Alcon Entertainment said it was planning a new Blade Runner project with Scott at the helm, but it didn’t reveal whether it would be a prequel or sequel to the original film.

“Blade Runner” devotees may not have to wait long for the new movie. “I think I’m close to finding a writer that might be able to help me deliver,” Scott says, “we’re quite a long way in, actually.”

The original film was inspired by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and told the grim story of Rick Deckard, a “blade runner” who hunts down “replicants” — androids who long to live free lives. Scott says Dick, who he says was “stressed” when he met him, found a romanticism in his pessimism. And similarly, Blade Runner didn’t offer a romantic view of the future.

“That’s why I think I was so unpopular” when the film was released, Scott says, because at the core of the film is a story about mortality. “Even though people think it’s a cool Philip Marlowe film with Deckard played by Harrison Ford,” he says, “the film is very much about humanity.”

Scott says the new Blade Runner project is moving ahead “not with the past cast, of course.” No Deckard? “No, not really,” he says.

I'm down to see it!

Awesome. I wonder if Vangelis will return too?

The announcement that he'd commited to direct a new Blade Runner "film" came out a while ago, but this is the first confirmation that it's actually a sequel.

I'm on the fence about this. Blade Runner and Alien are my two favourite films. But Scott's just wrapping up production on Prometheus, which is a prequel to Alien, and it's looking to be pretty great. So, I guess I'll be optimistic about this.

[EDIT: It wouldn't be BR without Vangelis, in my opinion...]

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Still sucks that Rutger Hauer had to die but ole Sean Young got to live forever.

I haven't watched this movie since sometime in the 80s.

Time to hit Blockbuster...

spacedolphin said:

Awesome. I wonder if Vangelis will return too?

The score really did help create that mood!

Honestly I was not wild about this movie. It's great visually, but I'd really like to see something closer to the original story.

Mostly, I felt that watching it that Rutger Hauer (as good as he is) would not need any kind of test to determine that he is not human. He is the weirdest acting dude ever, and clearly a replican.

I think he should leave well enough alone.

...Unless he's planning on casting Fassbender again, of course.

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NDRU said:

Honestly I was not wild about this movie. It's great visually, but I'd really like to see something closer to the original story.

Mostly, I felt that watching it that Rutger Hauer (as good as he is) would not need any kind of test to determine that he is not human. He is the weirdest acting dude ever, and clearly a replican.

Have you seen him in the original Hitchiker? The dude is FRIGHTFUL!!!! Sean Bean, as good an actor as he is, just couldn't provide the same effect. In the original you want Rutger to be taken down immediately. In the remake, you want those loser college kids to get killed.

Even in this day of incredible CGI, nothing still comes close to this famous cityscape sequence. It just seems more grounded to me than a similar CGI sequence in the new Star Wars trilogy.

HotGritz said:

NDRU said:

Honestly I was not wild about this movie. It's great visually, but I'd really like to see something closer to the original story.

Mostly, I felt that watching it that Rutger Hauer (as good as he is) would not need any kind of test to determine that he is not human. He is the weirdest acting dude ever, and clearly a replican.

Have you seen him in the original Hitchiker? The dude is FRIGHTFUL!!!! Sean Bean, as good an actor as he is, just couldn't provide the same effect. In the original you want Rutger to be taken down immediately. In the remake, you want those loser college kids to get killed.

Never saw it but yeah he certainly had a vibe about him!

Rutger Hauer certainly was an underrated actor, it would be cool if Ridley gives him a little cameo or something (hey, if The Expendables can spark 80s nostalgia...). He may well approach his old go-to-man Russell Crowe as a substitute for Harrison Ford though.

V10LETBLUES said:

Even in this day of incredible CGI, nothing still comes close to this famous cityscape sequence. It just seems more grounded to me than a similar CGI sequence in the new Star Wars trilogy.

Totally, it was an amazing sequence. It also begs the question now that Jordan Cronenweth is no longer with us, who can match it? I know Dariusz Wolski and John Mathieson are who Ridley Scott work with regularly now, but I find their stuff a bit dull. I hope whoever it is dusts off the big factory xenons.

HotGritz said:

Still sucks that Rutger Hauer had to die but ole Sean Young got to live forever.

I read this and just about shit thinking Rutger Hauer was actually dead.

Also, Blade Runner 2 will probably be bad, but it would be really nice if it were good.

Lammastide said:

I think he should leave well enough alone.

...Unless he's planning on casting Fassbender again, of course.

Stop giving me hard-ons.

would be cool if Sean Young appeared in this one mysteriously

I hope they go for that early 80's feels and look for the film

OldFriends4Sale said:

would be cool if Sean Young appeared in this one mysteriously

I hope they go for that early 80's feels and look for the film

She need to get her act together first. Wasn't she just on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew looking like a Alabama Walmartian?

HotGritz said:

OldFriends4Sale said:

would be cool if Sean Young appeared in this one mysteriously

I hope they go for that early 80's feels and look for the film

She need to get her act together first. Wasn't she just on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew looking like a Alabama Walmartian?

HobbesLeCute said:

HotGritz said:

Still sucks that Rutger Hauer had to die but ole Sean Young got to live forever.

I read this and just about shit thinking Rutger Hauer was actually dead.

He old as fuck tho.