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Posted on 08/18/2011 11:33:20 AM PDT by BBell
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.
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I watched Blade Runner the other day.
LOVE this movie. The ONE flaw in it is a huge steaming pile of... well, you get the idea. The flaw was the stupid levitating cop car...not that it levitated, but that it poured smoke out of the back like the Batmobile or something. Made no sense; they had the technology to defy gravity but couldn’t get rid of the smoke. That scene never fails to jolt.
What’s the deal with the 3-D Alien? Post production 3-D sucks.
I saw this, expecting something close to P K Dick’s vision in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. I was vastly disappointed. While Blade Runner has some nice parts, on the whole it’s a ripoff and thinning of a better idea.
I’ll pass on a remake or sequel. Can’t they do something NEW?
this WAS a great movie...then came the dirctors cut...
I had not seen the movie in 30 years kind of forgot how it went...saw it again and could not figure out what the heck was going on...
it seems in the directors cut, they took out the Harrison Ford narration...making the movie for newcomers or those with CRS like me, unwatchable....
Is Obama going to play Roy Batty? Obama being a replicant would explain a lot of things.......
Is Obama going to play Roy Batty? Obama being a replicant would explain a lot of things.......
remakes, remakes, remakes.......
I think that was my favorite scene in that movie. I also like the explanation about loving all life in those final seconds.
Making a replica of a movie about replicas.
That’s so Hollywood!
Wow. My view is exactly the opposite. The theatrical cut is totally unwatchable because of the awful narration. The studio execs forced him to add the narration so people like you wouldn’t get all confused by the subtlety. Thankfully he eventually released the Director’s Cut.
“Made no sense; they had the technology to defy gravity but couldn’t get rid of the smoke. That scene never fails to jolt.”
I believe it was necessary to hide the mechanics.
When Hollywood actually had IDEAS for movies, not "let's do that one...again"
Usually they "look" better, but are acted worse, and received worse.
Plus a recycled tagline.
I marvel at the possibilities and admire all the more efforts of folks like DeMille way back when, The Ten Commandments parting the Red SEa scenes, no computer generated special effects back then, but then the original TRon was pretty good ;-)
.. Hollywood, screw this up? It has happened before. ;-) nothing like the classic uncut
beautiful line.. very poetic. I”m going to use that.
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