Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

[Guydowood]

source: Variety

Alcon Entertainment has an offer out to Harrison Ford to reprise his role as Rick Deckard in its sequel to “Blade Runner,” to be directed by the original’s helmer, Ridley Scott.

Hampton Fancher, co-writer of the screenplay of the iconic 1982 sci-fi film, and Michael Green are the screenwriters. The story in the sequel is being kept under wraps other than being set several decades after the conclusion of the original — which took place in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles.

Alcon has been working on the project for over three years, since announcing in early 2011 that it had secured film, TV and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels.

In August 2011, Scott committed to direct. Green came on board to work with Fancher a year ago.

“We believe that Hampton Fancher and Michael Green have crafted with Ridley Scott an extraordinary sequel to one of the greatest films of all time,” said Alcon toppers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. “We would be honored, and we are hopeful, that Harrison will be part of our project.”

It’s unusual for producers to make a public offer to a high-profile actor. There was no immediate response from representatives for Ford, who is set to reprise his Han Solo role in Disney’s “Star Wars Episode VII.”

In the original “Blade Runner,” 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 a 2019 version of Los Angeles. Ford’s Rick Deckard 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.

The 2011 deal with producer Bud Yorkin gave Alcon the film, TV and ancillary franchise rights for “Blade Runner” prequels and sequels. Yorkin will be a producer on the sequel with Kosove and Johnson and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, the CEOs of Thunderbird Films, will exec produce.

Fancher and David Peoples adapted “Blade Runner” from Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”

Scott directed in his third film following “The Duelists” and “Alien.” The film was nominated for Academy Awards for visual effects and art direction.

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.”

[Guydowood]

Originally Posted by dallywhitty

I really don't understand how they'd work an older Deckard into the story, given his true nature and everything.

But still, BRADE RUNNA.

my thoughts exactly. But it would make it interesting if Ford signs on.

[octagon]

Equal parts anticipation and dread.

What an odd sensation.

[Doctor Jack]

How about we leave well enough alone. Sometimes, we don't need more.

[DanTheMan]

Love Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott, but I found the original overrated. Maybe it's best to leave it alone.

[Race Bannon]

Leave it alone. I don't like the way Ridley Scott has progressively fallen more in love with the "Deckard as replicant" theory ( I prefer the movie where it's only a paranoid worry, but he's human). But I'm sure he'll remove all doubt and upset the paranoid balance of the first film.

[LegacyCosts]

I can't wait to see a sequel full of cgi and bad writing Blade Runner is pretty much the definition of a film that will never need a sequel. It belongs in the 80s because the general aesthetic of the film goes wonderfully with that decade. Sci fi now is unimpressive and bland, mostly due to digital effects compensating for stale premises. (elysium, after earth, oblivion etc)

[Beast]

After Prometheus I am certainly not excited for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner II.

[S127]

Originally Posted by Beast

After Prometheus I am certainly not excited for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner II.

Typed the words right out of my finger's.

[X400]

Can't wait hope it doesn't fall through!

I'd watch it without Ford but now that he's in I can't wait!*


*im assuming he'll do it he's said he would love to when asked in the past

[Dispatch Ninja]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

How about we leave well enough alone. Sometimes, we don't need more.

Ya, I wish they would leave this one alone as well.

[qb2333]

Originally Posted by Beast

After Prometheus I am certainly not excited for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner II.

+1. Blade Runner has certainly stood the test of time and he's made some terrific movies over the years but Prometheus was supremely disappointing

[Astro Zombie]

Not every movie needs a sequel. The first one is fine on its own.

What would this even be about?

[qb2333]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

Not every movie needs a sequel. The first one is fine on its own.

What would this even be about?

Couldn't agree more but Hollywood seems to have very little originality these days with unending sequels and "reboots'

[Spirit Zero]

Love Blade Runner and seeing an old Deckard would be interesting but in Ford's current grumpy uninterested state I doubt it would be any good and I doubt Ford will do it.

Also seeing as Deckard is a replicant how could he even be old?

[DuranFanWI]

Maybe he won't be old and they'll give him the Jeff Bridges treatment ala Tron Legacy.

[spanky87]

I'd like to see a sequel called 'Blade Runner Goes Hawaiian".

[L.J.]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

How about we leave well enough alone. Sometimes, we don't need more.

You just hit the nail on the head.

[Mahatma]

Originally Posted by Astro Zombie

Not every movie needs a sequel. The first one is fine on its own.

What would this even be about?

If it's set 30 years later,it could be kind of interesting to see their interpretation of where the society has gone to.But having Prometheus somewhat fresh in mind,I wouldn't be cheering for Scott to take the directors chair.

[JeffTheMovieGuy]

As much as it would be fun to see Deckard dive deeper into the world of Blade Runner, a sequel is not warranted and would ruin the magic that is the first film.