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To: freedomjusticeruleoflaw
If Rutger Hauer is in it I’m going.

He's not in the movie. Ford and Olmos are the only members of the original cast who reprised their roles. Too bad they couldn't get Emmett Walsh back for a cameo either - he's probably pushing 80, but he still acts and Bryant was a great character.

Speaking of Rutger Hauer, I always wondered why after Blade Runner his career never really took off as it should have. You'd think he'd be on every director's A-list to play complex, sympathetic villain type roles after Batty. Instead, he went on to do a lot of movies, but they were mostly B-grade, often straight to video throwaways. There was nothing really on par with what he gave us in Blade Runner. Rutger Hauer wound up having a strange career trajectory - arthouse movies in Holland, Bladerunner and a couple of other decent A-list roles in Hollywood, and then mostly B movies.

61 posted on 09/22/2017 9:10:50 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: ek_hornbeck
"Instead, he went on to do a lot of movies, but they were mostly B-grade, often straight to video throwaways"

Didn't Rutger play the evil industrialist at Wayne Enterprises in the "Batman Returns" movie? I think he's also played other character roles in successful Hollywood flicks. But, I agree with your basic premise - he never did anything afterwards to live up to his performance in Blade Runner. He stole ever scene he was in and you couldn't take your "eyes" off of him. "You wouldn't believe what I've seen with your eyes."

81 posted on 09/22/2017 12:07:42 PM PDT by circlecity
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