Ridley Scott Signs On For Blade Runner Sequel

[poleboy]

Please, please, please don't mess this up. Pleeease.

.. and maybe actually read the book first this time, Scott. Moar robot sheep plz.

 

[honeybakedham]

This could work. A good plot would be to have two replicants escape together from the drudgery of their current existence, which in turn leads to a dangerous journey across america with both their owners and the authorities in hot pursuit. The ending could have the replicants showing everyone that they are truly independent by driving a car off a cliff.

Bwahahahaha

BRILLIANT!

 

[universaltraveller]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO x ∞

I'd accept, maybe, a prequel...

 

[honeybakedham]

I dont see how this sequal can possibly live up to its predecessor, but if we let that stop us we'd never make anything new for fear it wouldnt be better than the last thing. Saying that though i wish hollywood would quit it with the constant sequal making and rebooting.

I'm not picking on "you"... but a lot of people keep saying that everything is a sequal, everything is a remake, nothing is original, and everything sucks. Well...

In 2010, Hollywood alone generated $10.89 billion in revenues, its best year ever (not adjusting for inflation). For perspective, 1995 earned $5.29 billion, and 2005 earned $8.95 billion.

Further, and I don't have 2010 numbers, but in 2007, about 2500 feature length motion pictures were produced in the "Western World" (US, Australia, Europe and Russia and I am including Japan and South Korea) with about 450 being produced in America (excluding Canada). (By the way, India alone produced 1164 movies that year... and I'm betting someone sang and danced in every last one of them.)

I am NOT saying that Hollywood's product is good because they made a lot of money. If I said that, I'd have to say that Jimmy Buffet and Celine Dion are cutting edge artists and we should celebrate their entire catalogs. My real point is, if one cannot find and see a movie that they like in the vast sea of movies available, then one simply does like movies and might do well to seek another entertainment avenue.

And just in 2010 alone:

The Social Network
Shutter Island
Toy Story 3
Kick Ass
Restrepo
The Fighter
Inside Job
Let Me In
The Ghost Writer
Winter's Bone
Black Swan
127 Hours
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World
Blue Valentine
The King's Speech
True Grit
Inception
The Kid's Are All Right
I Love You Phillip Morris
Rabbit Hole
Red
The Town
Get Low
Greenberg
Book of Eli
Another Year

And many more...

You may not like every film I listed... but I listed 26 movies, a perfect number if you want to go to the movies every other week of the year (more often than most people actually want to go, less often than I like to go)... and that's just the first 26 I recalled that I liked that came out last year. In the list, only one remake (True Grit... and it was freaking awesome) and one sequel (Toy Story 3... and it was freaking awesome).

Here's the bottom line.

Movies are awesome. Storytelling is awesome. The swath of product to consume is wide and varied and there is something out there for each and every one of us.

Go to the movies.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Get Vangelis out of semi-retirement and on board, and we're golden.

Indeed. I don't even think the BladeRunner score was anywhere near Vangelis' best work but it's definitely an integral part of what makes the movie what it is. If Vangelis can't be convinced to do it, an interesting option would be to use some of his other lesser known music.

For those of you born post-1990, Blade Runner is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

Why do people born pre-1990 sometimes assume people born post-1990 either don't know or don't care about things that happened before the year they were born? Sometimes people watch older movies. Blade Runner isn't just a piece of '80s pop culture, it's not something you had to be there and see when it came out to know what it is.

I get what you're saying but I personally took it as a slight reference to an article that popped up on the Escapist a year or so ago. I don't remember much about it other than the fact it mentioned BladeRunner and there was a large proportion of commenters who basically responded with "Durrr.. wut?" This drove the inimitable Susan Arendt to enter the topic and give everyone a browbeating.

 

[jFr[e]ak93]

I'd like to see the original (no directors cut) just so I know what this is about...

OT if the original is as good as I've heard... the squeal will suck.

 

[xXAsherahXx]

I thought the movie was kinda boring and depressing. Always shit weather (except in that guy's house), and the conflicts were disappointing. I respect it, but the movie just wasn't for me.

Loves the Harrison Ford though.

 

[tunderball]

I have a great deal of faith in Ridley Scott he's probably my favourite modern director and both of these projects seem like they are being revisited as labours of love by the original director as opposed to blatant cash ins or poor prequels that have been set up for 20 years.

And seriously the man can make a great film out of anything examples:

'Do androids dream of electric sheep?' is a really badly written book but the adaptation Bladerunner is a thought provoking piece of pure genius that has influenced nearly every sci-fi film released since.

'Alien' was original penned as a uninspired monster movie until Ridley and H.R. Giger get involved and turn it into a mega hit and the most genuinely terrifying movie ever made.

I am very excited to see what the man can come up with while returning to these universes that he worked so hard to help build.

'I've seen things you people wouldn't believe....'

 

[Mrsoupcup]

Blade Runner 2 Attack of the Replicants?

 

[Redworld13]

Oh god i hope its good! And i wonder what mr.Philp K Dick would think of this!

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

Rutger Hauer getting cast would be nice\

It definitely would, but it'd probably have to be some sort of cameo. Roy is dead and he's getting old.

maybe he and harrison ford could play two old men playing chess in the background.

Anyway, theres no way this movie will be any good, and i'm still going to see it.

The proper version of the original is one of the best movies ever.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

The proper version of the original is one of the best movies ever.

I'm asking this as a legit question, as I get different answers from people, but what do you think is the 'proper' version of BR?

The director's cut, which is the exact same version as the "Final Cut" on blu-ray. It removes the bad ending the studio tacked on, and adds in a couple things that just make the whole movie work work better

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

The proper version of the original is one of the best movies ever.

I'm asking this as a legit question, as I get different answers from people, but what do you think is the 'proper' version of BR?

The director's cut, which is the exact same version as the "Final Cut" on blu-ray. It removes the bad ending the studio tacked on, and adds in a couple things that just make the whole movie work work better

You're not the first person to say that, I have the general release one from a while back, would you say the directors cut is so different as to be worth buying again?

yes