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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As far as I’m concerned, Rocky V, much like Star Trek V: The Live Birth Abortion, is non-canon, never happened!
As for Khan becoming a White British guy, one line about how he was given plastic surgery so no one would recognize this FAMOUS DICTATOR could have at least explained that idiocy in reasonable way. But no, explaining anything simply wasn’t done in the Abrams movies.
Then you need to lighten up! It's not a "chick flick." It's a damned funny movie about a guy and a gal who hate each other, stranded by plane controlled-crash-landing on a remote island with modern-day pirates after their hides. The "liberated" gal learns how weak and powerless she really is next to the power of a real man, and it's just a hoot!
I like Tom Selleck. Actually, I LOVE him. But you know a funny thing, from this woman's POV, I see a high-maintenance guy, moody, ruminating, deeply serious and calculating behind the flip attitude. Nice kind of man, but high-maintenance, moody.
When I look at Harrison Ford, I see an average maintenance guy. What you see is what you get. You're right, he's a horrible actor in some things and too often paired with actresses too young for him, the old goat.
I do love Tom Selleck, though. If you've ever read Owen Wister's "The Virginian," that IS Tom Selleck. Except it was published in 1902. !!!
LOL!!! {^)
He’s a replicant too. Can’t be decades later...
Chef: [gloomy] Hello there, children.
Cartman: Hey, Chef.
Kyle Broflovski: How did your date with miss Ellen go?
Chef: Not too good.
Stan Marsh: What happened? Didn’t you make sweet lovin’ to her?
Chef: No, no, no, she’s not like that. You see, uh, how do I put this. Children, Miss Ellen doesn’t exactly play for right team.
[children look puzzled]
Chef: I-I-I-In other words, children, she not a member of the *heterosexual persuasion*.
[the children still don’t have a clue]
Chef: Don’t you understand? She’s a lesbian!
Stan Marsh: A whatbian?
Kyle Broflovski: A prebian?
Chef: You boys don’t know what a lesbian is?
Stan Marsh: [to Kenny] Kenny?
[Kenny shrugs]
Stan Marsh: No, explain it to us, Chef.
Chef: That-That’s okey, eh b... look, all you need to know is, Miss Ellen is a lesbian, and that means she only likes other lesbians.
Stan Marsh: Oh.
Chef: Now move along, children, you’re holding up the line.
[they walk on]
Kyle Broflovski: Weak, dude! She only likes other lesbians?
Stan Marsh: Hey man, if she only likes other lesbians, then all we gotta do is become lesbians too!
Kyle Broflovski: Hey, yeah!
Cartman: You guys, you know what? My grandma was Dutch-Irish, and my grandpa was lesbian, that makes me quarter lesbian!
Stan Marsh: What the hell are you doing, Cartman?
Cartman: My Mom said if you want to become a lesbian, you have to lick carpet.
Kyle Broflovski: Really?
Stan Marsh: Well, I got a Indigo Girls CD, the guy at the record store said it was perfect
Kyle Broflovski: I got these killer Birkenstocks.
Stan Marsh: This is a bunch a’ crap! I’ve been licking this carpet for three hours and I still don’t feel like a lesbian!
Stan Marsh: I can’t wait for Miss Ellen to see what a raging lesbian I am!
Cartman: I’m a bigger lesbian than you!
Stan Marsh: No, you’re a fatter lesbian than me!
Kyle Broflovski: Screw you, guys, I am King lesbian!
HAha, I like that scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6oplzJuR08
Mr. Data would fail that test badly!
Original truly blazed an atmospheric trail
Screw Hans Solo
Rutger Hauer stole the show
Remember the line in TOS (Space Seed) where Kirk described Khan’s charisma as being “electric” ? Little Cousin Benny Cucumberpatch Walton from Walton’s Mountain had about as much electric charisma as a spatula.
Heche admitted Ellen was her only lesbian relationship. She’s a straight women who briefly took up with a boyish dyke, much like Linday Lohan.
Did you you see Wag the Dog? In that her characted had a mini-tirade against Dustin Hoffman calling him a pinko commie ect, can’t find a clip of it, very arousing. Here’s the quote.
<<<<<<<<Oh, God. What do we do now? Huh? Huh? What do we do now, huh, boy producer? Huh? Mister win-an-Emmy, social-conscience, whale-sh*t, save-the-rain-forest, peacenik-commie, fu**in’-hire-a-convict-s**thead? Huh? What do we do now, liberal, affirmative action, s**thead, peacenik commie f**k? What do you want to do now?<<<<<<<<<<
It is interesting that back in 1982 Hollywood was preaching climate change - it rained all the time in this future L.A.
Yeah, that redhead sure wouldn’t have mutinied for Cumberbunch, that’s for sure!
I would think he could just take on the role of the chief of police or some kind of administrator. Obviously he would have been promoted, OR, drawn out of retirement after his skin-job girlfriend went nuts. Something like that. Maybe James Olmos would be his boss. Who knows, but I really enjoy their work.
CGI sucks!!! It is WAY too clean. You can’t simulate the grime and dirt of real life with pristine clean CGI. The way the models worked in the sci-fi greats all had that realistic dirty feel. Compare Star Trek original to Star Trek TNG. If the producers of the film fill it with CGI and commit cinematic suicide like Star Wars 1 2 and 3 or Indiana Jones 4 I will be most disappointed.
Marla McGivers was more macho than Bennie. Tell ya what, George Lucas, you let me direct the next Star Wars to atone for Abrams. I’ll cast Rosie O’Donnell as Darth Vader and Gabourey Sidibe as Yoda. Deal ?
What bugs me I cannot remember if I saw this in a theater when it came out. Doesn’t seem likely I’d wouldn’t have gone.
That would have COMPLETELY changed the tone and story of the film, since Harry Mudd is a comedic villain and a slimy con artist instead of the "cold-blooded, revenge-seeking madman" angle they wanted for their "darkness" promos.
It also would have shown that JJ Abrams & Co. actually "got" a major aspect of Star Trek, since Harry Mudd is an actual example of the "Joker" to Kirk's "Batman", as a reoccurring villain who is a major arch-enemy and constant thorn in his side. Khan was only intended for a single episode and didn't get his iconic status until he was reused in Wrath of Khan, and THAT worked because he was a bitter, changed man AFTER being stranded for 15 years. Take away THAT element (which they did in Into Darkness) and he's just another forgettable strongman foe from the original series.
Furthermore, Cumberbatch was nothing like the Khan from the TV episode "Space Seed", personality wise. THAT Khan was a charming, arrogant, seductive guy. I actually thought these guys would respect the source material enough to use a villain from the original series that fit the kind of story they were telling (instead, they did the opposite -- came up with the story first and forced Khan in there when he didn't fit). Based on the trailers, it looked like they were using Captain Garth from the third season episode "Whom Gods Destroy", which would have been particularly clever since most people aren't familiar with him, and there was tons of possibilities they could explore to do something new with him, since the original episode was confided to a mental asylum on a planet where he had escaped and was holding Kirk captive. From the episode, we learned that Garth was:
- A rogue, out-of-control Starfleet officer
- Highly decorated and better than Kirk "at everything"
- Gained the ability to shape-shift and change his appearance from alien race
- Driven insane and hell bent on committing genocide
- Masterful tactician dedicated to getting revenge on the Federation
In short, the character fit perfectly for the kind of story they wanted to tell, and there was tons of stuff they could have done if they set it in the "2259" time period and gave us a scenario like Garth escaped custody and never made to the asylum. Alas, we got Khan In Name Only instead.
Ok here’s something - the head guy can create human replicants but can’t figure out how to do something about his eyesight that is so bad he has to look through pop bottle glasses?
The worst part of it is they changed the time line. They basically went back in time and erased the entire Star Trek universe. It was nothing less than vandalism.
Yup. Precisely. Imagine the reaction if a hard core Trek fan was given carte blanche to take over the Star Wars franchise as a reboot and decided to toss it all out. I’m sure the reaction would be visceral. Turn it around and they call it fresh and exciting. It was just an insult and vandalism, as you said.
Bleh. You’re trying to think coherently. With Abrams, it’s all StarWarsfanboi revisionism, defecation and lensflare.
They blew up Vulcan for crying out loud. What is the Trek universe without Vulcan? In the “new” trek universe Spock never goes through Pon Farr and fights Kurk to the death.
It is just so arrogant and disrespectful.
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