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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I think you're right, but I blame the writers. They seem to jot down a series of "kewl" scenes they can do in a movie involving fist fights, chase scenes, and explosions, then construct a loose "story" around that to get from point A to point B. You know what the latest "script" (if you can call it that) behind the Into Darkness writers was? The Amazing Spider-Man 2. Look up the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
And now Paramount wants these guys to DIRECT.
I have a feeling that JJ’s Star Wars are going to be on par with the prequels.Both Trekkies and wannabe Jedi are going to want to hang him by the short and curlies :-) (that’s frigging funny ... Never heard that before).
Ahh, Benedict. My bad.
Harsh but somewhat true
I agree. Many fans of the movie were really fans of Philip K. Dick's literary accomplishments and they just felt that others didn't know what they were talking about.
If you read the book, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” it was set in Seattle and San Francisco.
I consider Seattle to be the real inspiration for the setting of the rain and overcast for both the book and the movie.
I don’t know if you saw him in “Man on Fire” but I think that showed his chops in this type of role.
BLADE RUNNER reminded me a lot of FRANKENSTEIN -- the original novel, that is. Maybe the idea of playing God & trying to create life, which backfires.
Bryant: I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic.
Lesbanon???
No shite!
Reminds of a funny review of a Star Trek episode I saw on SFDebris.com. Riker beams over to a Borg ship and Picard asks him to describe stuff to him. The reviewer points out that a teenage girl with a smart phone could have shown Picard video of the Borg ship!
Now I liked the action scenes in the Abrams films, more so the first one, but almost anyone could have come up with a better “story” for either of them especially the 2nd one. They literally did not give a damn about having any decent story at all, disgusting.
If the writers were payed more the equivalent of minimum wage, it was too much.
I forgave them for the paper-thin story in the first one since “Nero the time traveling Romulan from the future” was just a plot device to free themselves from previous continuity and bring in a new cast. NOW they had the freedom to do any kind of story they wanted, seemingly.
But it takes them four years to write a sequel that’s basically a generic “crazy British terrorist” action movie recycling the name “Khan” from the old Star Trek? Inexcusable.
Agreed
Watch the Sci_Fi channel miniseries (Dune and Children of Dune). It's so much closer to the books.
I was 22 when it came out.
Rutger Hauer has been around the block a few times as well. Always played an awesome bad guy - just had that menacing essence about him.
Daryl Hannah goes psychotic...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsG06XnEJTg
Neat flick, all in all. Different from the run of the mill sci-fi back then.
I think there comes a time when “action” stars need to hang it up and let the younger guys come to the forefront.
Yoda can get away with it... Han Solo, not so much...
“....r maybe Blade Runners track down old people at this point so he’s running for his life...”
Like “Logan’s Run”? Anyone remember that one? Came out around the same time as the first Star Wars, thereabouts.
“...Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was the PERFECT way to end the TRILOGY and they should have let it rest in peace....”
I actually thought it WAS the last movie to be made, hence the play on words in the title.
I enjoyed that one a lot.
“He chose...Poorly...” Great line, and the Templar’s face when he said was priceless.
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