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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“Well, howdy! I want more life...please, sir...”
Excellent!
You just wrote the next Bladerunner story outline
80 year old Han Solo running around is a joke, whether it’s in the future or a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Gay.
That's the same problem the global warming crowd has had. They set it too soon in the future and now that none of their nonsense has come to pass they look silly.
I agree. A mediocre SciFi IMO.
They need to remake Dune.
That’s Ridley Scott. I still say that doesn’t jibe with the character and his decided lack of strength (and Scott himself seems to be somewhat tongue in cheek with the claim). I believe Deckard is human.
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That I agree with. I read the book, and the movie was a disappointment.
Yes, but has he lost his humanity? Oooo, I, Sirius, am deep and so I will treat myself to another ginNtonix.
As was the miniseries.
There was also the hysteria during that period in the ‘80s when people thought Japan would come to dominate the United States, too. All the Japanese imagery is rather quaint.
Fear of China is probably overblown, too.
They did remake “Dune” as a series, but it was lacking. I still love David Lynch’s film version, even if some think it is a mess.
Yeah, for some reason I was thinking reboot rather than sequel. My bad.
He could still be absolutely great as the aging blade runner with his "also aged wife." The interplay between the "old Blade Runner" and new ones and the fight between he and the establishment could be grand. He would be the intellectual side of the fight and the new young blade runners would be the physical and action side of the movie. It could be great.
I liked Blade Runner.
Living in such a dystopian society, I would think it difficult to maintain one’s humanity. All the well-adjusted people moved to the off world colonies, “A chance to begin again... !”
Maybe, maybe not. China is a lot more plausible than Japan, especially if because of their gargantuan population and that they own so much of us already.
Oh, heavens’ no. Please let there not be a reboot. It’s bad enough that they crapped all over Star Trek.
When he starts crooning to the girl, "Some enchanted evening, you will see a stranger, you will see a stranger across a crowded room ..."
(Had to be one of the funniest bewitching things on film ever!)
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