[movie] Blade Runner prequel or sequel coming?

[metallicorphan]

with Scott doing this and Prometheus (the 'prequel' of sorts to Alien),maybe we'll see a pre/sequel to Legend as well 

[kronovan]

Great news IMO that Scott will be taking the directorial rains for this.     I can't say I agree that Alien and Blade Runner are the only films he directed that are distinctively in his style. I'd certainly add The Duellists, Black Hawk Down and Gladiator to that list. When you consider how many other films like those have been attempted, and almost all have fallen far below what Scott achieved. I also enjoyed his Kingdom of Heaven and American Gangster and doubt many directors could pull off as decent a job.

[hepcat]

Honestly, I think Scott is an overrated director if I only look at his work over the past decade.  I don't believe there's anything in films like Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood that even a Michael Bay couldn't do.  It's his work on Bladerunner and films earlier than that that I think were just visually and stylistically amazing.

[kronovan]

You won't get much disagreement from me about Robin Hood, but Kingdom of Heaven - seriously. That has far too much of story and plot for lotsa-action-little-substance Michael Bay. Scott has some talents that very few directors possess. In particular his storyboarding is considered legendary in film circles and one of the reason he usually gets the most from his cinematographers. Heck he even had the budget for Alien doubled by the Producer on the quality of his storyboards alone! He's also considered a pioneer in the use of some natural, environmental effects. I certainly wouldn't rank him in the top 10 for his generation, but I'd reserve "overated" for countless directors before I pinned it on Scott. I also wouldn't call someone who's been nonminated for as many directorial awards as he has, yet only one a few as overated. But hey,to each their own; he's a top rate director as far as I'm concerned.

[rickfc]

Honestly, I think Scott is an overrated director if I only look at his work over the past decade.  I don't believe there's anything in films like Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood that even a Michael Bay couldn't do.  It's his work on Bladerunner and films earlier than that that I think were just visually and stylistically amazing.

You are strictly speaking about the last ten years, right? Because there's no way that Michael Bay could pull anything close to resembling Gladiator (2000)

Some people use the term decade loosely...

[hepcat]

While I like Gladiator, I thought it signaled the decline of Scott.  It still is visually stunning at times (his return to his home dreams, for example) but it doesn't have the vision that his earlier works contained...and again, this is all just my opinion.

[rickfc]

While I like Gladiator, I thought it signaled the decline of Scott.  It still is visually stunning at times (his return to his home dreams, for example) but it doesn't have the vision that his earlier works contained...and again, this is all just my opinion.

Well, your opinion is wrong.

[hepcat]

It just feels like he sacrificed the intimacy of his earlier work for the grandeur of spectacle once he started up with historical action epics (although I will admit that Kingdom of Heaven seemed more like a return to his earlier style than anything else he's done in quite some time).  Films like Alien and Bladerunner pull you into the world he's created because you can see the detail behind it.  I don't get that same feeling from the films of his later years.

[metallicorphan]

more on Blade Runner 2(not much to be honest)
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/05/17/original-blade-runner-writer-on-sequel

Additionally, it has now been confirmed that the film will in fact be a sequel to the original tale of the Replicant-hunting, down-on-his-luck future cop played by Harrison Ford. "The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded," we're told. So does that mean Ford will be back?

I'll be very surprised if Ford was back,with his age(Do Replicants age?) and the mammoth falling out on the first movie(although Ford and Scott are now friends)...saying that,as said in the other thread Ford does seem to want to make Sci-Fi again so who knows

[Soulchilde]

more on Blade Runner 2(not much to be honest)
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2012/05/17/original-blade-runner-writer-on-sequel

Additionally, it has now been confirmed that the film will in fact be a sequel to the original tale of the Replicant-hunting, down-on-his-luck future cop played by Harrison Ford. "The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded," we're told. So does that mean Ford will be back?

I'll be very surprised if Ford was back,with his age(Do Replicants age?) and the mammoth falling out on the first movie(although Ford and Scott are now friends)...saying that,as said in the other thread Ford does seem to want to make Sci-Fi again so who knows

Is he a Replicant? 


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[metallicorphan]

 ..Hmm,yeah i suppose it never was confirmed was it,especially in the first few cuts of the movie

That kind of thing is usually left to the viewer to decide and argue over,its the 'Philip K Dick mindfuck®',Just like in Total Recall,did everything that happen in Total Recall happen or was it all apart of what he asked for at Recall(Blue Sky On Mars etc)

so,yeah a sequel WITH Deckard would spoil that experience from the first film(again,later cuts),whether it was Ford again or not,surely they would not ignore the Elephant in the Room with that character in the sequel and not say anything about it at all

Maybe they should just leave Deckard out of it,unless,they don't address it,but leave subtle clues like the first film and again make the viewer decide,but wouldn't that just be a case of all the evidence stacking up against him?

It certainly makes interesting conversation

[metallicorphan]

Ridley Scott promises a Female Protagonist


well like Ripley and Thelma and Louise,now Blade Runner 2

Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist.

[metallicorphan]

http://variety.com/2013/film/news/blade-runner-sequel-1200490621/

A sequel to Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner” is gaining momentum, with Michael Green in talks to rewrite the script from Hampton Fancher, who wrote the screenplay for the 1982 original.

Alcon Entertainment has been working on the project for over two years, since announcing in early 2011 that it had secured film, TV and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic thriller. In August 2011, Scott committed to direct.

Alcon has noted that Scott and his “Blade Runner” collaborator Fancher originally conceived of “Blade Runner” as the first in a series of films incorporating the themes and characters featured in Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” from which “Blade Runner” was adapted.

Fancher’s original story/screenplay is set several years after the first film concluded in a dystopian version of Los Angeles.

Alcon co-toppers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove will produce, with Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, along with  Scott. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble of Thunderbird Films are executive producers.

Green recently completed rewrites on “Robopocalypse” and Warners Bros. “Gods and Kings.” He also wrote the screenplay for Warner’s “The Green Lantern”; TV credits include “Heroes,” “The River,” “Kings” and “Everwood.”

In the original film, Rutger Hauer played the leader of a group of escaped “replicants” — genetically engineered androids used for work on Earth’s off-world colonies — who are hiding out in 2019 Los Angeles. Harrison Ford’s character is a “blade runner,” a police officer who kills replicants when necessary.

The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993.

Alcon fully finances its films and has an output deal with Warner Bros., which distributed the original “Blade Runner.”

“Blade Runner” was the first of  Dick’s works to be adapted into a film by Hollywood, setting the stage for “Total Recall,” “A Scanner Darkly,” “Minority Report,” “Paycheck” and “The Adjustment Bureau.”

[CeeKay]

they should do a concurrent story instead of a prequel or a sequel-  they can insert shots from the original into it and shape the story like they did with the first Godfather video game