New Blade Runner movie by Ridley Scott

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/rid...-version-of-seminal-sci-fi-film-blade-runner/

"EXCLUSIVE: After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film. Scott has signed on to direct and produce a new installment of Blade Runner. He’ll make the film with Alcon Entertainment, producing with Alcon partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. This would be the most high profile project for Alcon since The Blind Side. They got control of the franchise earlier this year, but it's a whole different ballgame with Scott at the helm.

I’m not getting a clear sense at this point whether Scott intends to do a sequel or a prequel to the 1982 film that was loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Also unclear is whether they start fresh or reach out to Harrison Ford. The original took place in dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, in which organic superhuman robots called replicants escaped and are hiding somewhere on earth. Ford played Richard Deckard, a burnt out blade runner assigned to hunt them down. His tired life gets altered when he himself falls for one of the replicants and struggles to keep her from being destroyed.

The film was not a blockbuster when first released--it grossed $32 million in its original run--but the film has gained esteem over time. From the bleak but breathtaking visuals to the complex storyline and themes of mortality, Blade Runner became a classic. There has periodically been talks of doing a sequel but those never really went anywhere. After injecting state of the art 3D in reviving Alien, imagine what Scott can do with Blade Runner? Now, the filmmaker is ready to engage. Alcon has its output deal with Warner Bros, which remastered and released a 25th anniversary version on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2007. Warner Bros made the original film.
This is just the first step and the project will have to be written and it will likely evolve during that process. That's what happened on Alien, which began as a prequel to his 1979 classic. That changed when Lost's Damon Lindelof came in with a different take on the subject matter that imprinted on Scott and Fox executives. They wound up making Prometheus, which Fox considers an original but which I've heard is a cousin to the original Alien franchise. That film will be released June 8, 2012, with Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce starring. Scott is repped by WME."

Hope it doesn't dissapoint.

Blade Runner is one of my favourite films

Wattttttt awesome

This could be fucking awesome. Prometheus has had me super excited since its announcement. Scott has had a pretty spotty track record over the years (especially in the last ten), but both of his forays into sci-fi are indisputably in the all time top ten of the genre.

I hadn't heard about Prometheus until seeing this story ... wow. Apparently there's still an "obvious connection" to Alien ... in before either 1) we get a tacky ending like Red Dragon ("there's a new soldier here to see you ... name's Ripley") or 2) we get an actual Sigourney cameo, with de-aging CGI. Still the movie itself should be awesome.

FFFUUUUU, enough with the hollywood remakes. This movie is already nearly perfect, it should never be remade!

Fuck this. Scott won't be able to pull this off.

Enough with the 3D crap, too.

did you actually read the OP bro? It's not a remake, but a proper sequel.

Anyway, I'm more excited about Prometheus (although I kind of wish they had foregone the Alien connection and made it entirely original). Still, more Ridley Scott science fiction films is always a good thing.

I really didn't like the original all that much but it was the theatrical version. Scott seems to get fucked over with those (Kingdom of Heaven) so I should check out the directors cut. I'm guessing it's much better.

Final Cut's awesome, bro

can't see them getting Ford if it's a sequel, seeing how he hates the original.

What? He really hates it? It's THE best science fiction movie ever made.. I can't comprehend this.

I've only heard him say that he fucking hates the voiceovers on the theatrical version. I agree, too. He also doesn't like the possibilities opened up by the dream sequences, and I think that makes him kind of a faggot. Anyway, I don't think they can pull a sequel off. Leave it alone.

From the Wiki:

"In 1992, Ford revealed, "Blade Runner is not one of my favorite films. I tangled with Ridley.""

Well, yeah. That too, but I heard that the conflicts were mainly due to both the reasons I mentioned on my previous post. Still wouldn't count on him being on a new film, but I've always been under the impression that he likes Ridley much less than the actual film. But still, point taken.

This has me kind of sceptical, but Ridley Scott doing sci-fi is better than Ridley Scott doing hackneyed period pieces.

stringer bell

Kingdom of Heaven is awesome, just thought I'd throw that in there

blade runner sucks, this will suck, etc

you sure are a god damn expert

Strong hipster.

i thought hipsters liked blade runner "best sci-fi movie ever (after donnie darko)", et al

it is a beautifully shot film, but the script it so terrible. i hate every single character, and daryl hannah should never be in front of a camera

lol shut up

itt tyke doesn't get NOIR SCYFY

Fuck off, there is NO REASON to make a sequel for this. Philip K. Dick never wrote any such thing so it would all be coming entirely from the minds of mere mortals, therefore it will suck donkey dick.

Are you retarded or what? PHILIP K. DICK NEVER WROTE ANY SUCH THING. Those are just cash-ins to "expand" upon that world, when anything you could ever want was already in DADOES.

Did you read the part about 'official and authorised'? That means Dick signed off on the novels. I'm just saying there are sequels around.

Dick died in 1982. The first one of those "sequels" came out in 1995.

Sorry to be a dick here, but when people fuck with Philip K. Dick I fucking rage.

I've always been meaning to see Blade Runner, so I ran out and got a lend of the DVD from my friend and just watched it. The version he had was one of the directors cuts. Loved it. I'm going to pick up the final cut Blu-Ray tomorrow.

That said, I don't really see the point of a sequel but whatever.

nafgorp rages more than e_d these days.

kingdom of heaven has nice shots but everything else about it is gay. Like Islam.

lol dude

lol

philly suburbs

After reading this thread I decided to rewatch Blade Runner today. It was okay.

trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwD1hSEMmMI

tease

hey nafgorp rage more, be the hero from coast to coast to coast

Evan Stone is pretty much the most awesome man ever.

Hey LTD be German more, be the Nazi from coast to coast to coast

New news:

http://thefilmstage.com/news/blade-...cotts-sequel-will-feature-female-protagonist/

- Confirmed to be a sequel.
- Original writer Hampton Fancher returning to write script.
- Will feature female protagonist
- Takes place "some years after the original."

color me intrigued. then again I'm not that stuck up about perfect movies being "ruined" by sequels.

Caught a scene recently and fuck he's porked out quite a bit.

he will never top Pirates 2 imho