Posted on 05/27/2014 3:50:41 PM PDT by Para-Ord.45
Alcon Entertainment has an offer out to Harrison Ford to reprise his role of Rick Deckard in its Ridley Scott-directed sequel to Blade Runner.
Original screenwriter Hampton Fancher and Michael Green are writing the new one, which takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original.
Alcon acquired Blade Runner‘s film, television and ancillary rights in 2011 from producer Bud Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels of the sci-fi cult classic. Yorkin will serve as a producer on the sequel along with Alcon’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers. Alcon actually sent a press release out that it offered the role to Ford (which is unusual in itself), but Ford gave an interview recently saying he was anxious to see the script. He has expressed interest in reprising the role in the past, but no deal is set as he has yet to read the script.
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Very nicely stated.
Anybody who casts a skinny, pasty, British git as Khan should be hung from a lamppost by the short and curlies. Abrams is just a Star Wars groupie who took a dump all over the Trek franchise.
I’ll say. Look at Zero’s “paradise” we’re living in...
Strange how the actor playing Milner (Paul Le Mat) didn’t end up a bigger star. He seemed very promising.
Okay, alright. I'll give you that one.
But the chemistry between Spock and Jim -- and the whole crew -- !!! It redeems even the miscasting of Khan, but it was an alternate universe or something like that, so ...
What if they'd done it with Harry Mudd instead of Khan?
The actors were playing the Harkonnens as evil, degenerate fags (”Feyd, lovely Feyd...”). That wouldn’t go over well today, since they can only be played as victims or as “normal” people.
Yeah, Curt and Milner and Steve were like the guys I hung around with. I had a ball in high school. Great memories.
Oh, no. Please make it stop.
Ford really is something special, though. Anybody who whines "All the great Hollywood actors died with Bogie" are Looney Tunes. We have a bunch of great actors of our own. Harrison Ford is one of them. He's the only guy who could have delivered Six Days and Seven Nights (and incidentally then-lesbian co-star Anne Heche went straight directly afterward ... just sayin'!), which is a very funny and even true, in its way. Mostly it's just an extremely funny movie of a spring-winter romance mostly because of Ford and Heche, and a great supporting cast.
I don't like his politics, but I sure like Harrison Ford's acting.
There is literally nothing in the Abrams Faux Trek abortion that I can stomach. Everything and I mean everything is simply wrong, wrong, wrong. A bunch of teens playing dress up. No one mistook the original crew for anything other than adults. I think I literally loathe this abortion more than I loathe this current regime in DC, that’s just how much I absolutely, viscerally hate and abhor it. Just thinking about it makes my hair follicles twitch.
I also had a gut feeling that Kingdom of the Crystal Cr@p was going to suck, and wisely avoided it. I still haven't seen the film to this day, and never will. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the PERFECT way to end the TRILOGY and they should have let it rest in peace. I feel sorry for those who were excited about Harrison Ford's return and sat there in the theater watching Shia LeBeouf as Indy's son "Mutt" swing through trees. Just imagining what that scene would be like makes me ill. And don't get me started on the "nuke the fridge" scene, I've actually seen it on youtube and it convinced me to NEVER watch the rest of the movie.
On the flip side, Stallone returned to playing Rocky after 16 years and it was a great film, but after Rocky V (unlike Indy 3) you had no place to go but up.
One film I did see that I wish I hadn't was Alien Resurrection. I'd say Riley Scott was spinning in his grave over that one, but of course he's still alive. I hated that film so much I actually bought the Alien collection and the threw out the two Alien Resurrection discs in case I'm ever drunk and decide to watch that movie again. I wish I could erase it from my head.
And on the flip side there, yes I didn't care for Blade Runner, but I thought Prometheus -- which people harshly criticized -- was a very enjoyable film. It made absolutely no sense, but I can say the same for lots of other movies that get positive reviews.
>> Anybody who casts a skinny, pasty, British git as Khan should be hung from a lamppost by the short and curlies. Abrams is just a Star Wars groupie who took a dump all over the Trek franchise. <<
I agree, Cumberbatch as Khan was an unforgivable sin IMO, and made even WORSE by the fact he toyed with the public over the "mystery" villain beforehand and swore up and down that it WASN'T Khan. There is only one Khan and Cumberbatch ain't him.
One of the most depressing movie news I've heard lately is the guy who wrote the last movie and gave us KINO (Khan In Name Only) has been rewarded by Paramount with a promotion to DIRECT the next Trek movie, in time for Star Trek's 50th anniversary in 2016. So a guy who writes stupid action movies disguised as sci-fi and has never directed in his life will be overseeing the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. Puke. Worst decision since tapping Obama to be Commander-in-chief.
Ditto that! {^)
Problem is, Ford can’t really act. He’s got a shockingly limited range, and always seems perpetually uncomfortable. He was close to being the weakest link in BR, since everyone else in the film was superb with virtually no false notes.
That’s why I said Tom Selleck could’ve played all his roles (at least Deckard and Jones) and he’d have done just as well.
I think I watched part of “Six Days...”, but those kind of odd romantic comedies I just don’t much care for.
Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
Me: Cool. She said exactly what I'm thinking!
*twitching*
Me (at 8) to my father after the movie, “What’s a lesbian ?”
My father: “Somebody who lives in the country next to Syria.”
I remember when that film came out, and the ONLY thing they discussed in the media for weeks on end was "Can OPENLY LESBIAN actress Anne Heche play a STRAIGHT women in a romantic comedy and convince critics of her acting skills?"
Because, as we all know, Heche was best known for being Ellen's girlfriend at the time, so she must have been "born gay" and can't help her sexual orientation...
Whoops! ;-)
Wow, her older child is the absolute spitting image of mom.
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