Deadline is reporting that Ridley Scott will direct a follow-up to the sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner. The announcement comes via a press release from Alcon Entertainment, who recently acquired the rights.
Scott is currently working on Prometheus, reportedly set in the same universe as Alien and acting as an extended universe prequel to the events of that film. Perhaps Scott has a taste for the past at the moment.
This is, of course, not the first time Scott has returned to the film. The original 1982 film, starring Harrison Ford as a detective called Deckard assigned to hunt down and destroy superhuman androids known as Replicants, is largely considered to be one of the defining examples of the genre in the last half-century of filmmaking. It was later re-released in the preferred Director’s Cut, followed more recently by a Final Cut released theatrically and on Blu-ray.
Deadline put up this press release:
Collider adds that the film will possibly begin shooting in 2013, but is unlikely to see original star Ford return to the role.
We are very pleased that Scott is back on board for any additional outings in this favourite film of ours, but we are undoubtedly expressing the same reservations that every other Interweb fanboy and fangirl has.
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Yes Yes and Yes. I don’t know if this will be any good but I’m looking forward to it nonetheless!
It will be exciting to see what Scott can do with the new 3D tech – perhaps it was a good thing that he waited this long to take on a sequel. Let’s just hope that the script is up to scratch – the original BR will be very hard to beat.
Scott has recently said that he’ll never work without 3D again, so I can only imagine how amazing that world will look with that added layer of depth. The great thing about the original BR is that the world is so complete, so any aspect of it is worth further exploration. With Scott attached, it has so much more of a chance of being more than a ‘fan fic’.
—–Instead of pitching retreads from his pre-sellout phase,
Scott might try to become an artist and truth seer for real by
laying out our 4 decades of systematic Globalist RED China
set up, sellout and TREASON OP —–or, at least, remembering
this, the 60th Anniversary of the awesomely relevant,
Globalism and EUGENICS ‘unfriendly’ —KOREAN WAR.