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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Sean Young has gotten... larger.
I didn’t see the miniseries. I tend to avoid those.
Loved the original. I think Ford could still do the job but will any of today’s directors be able to slow themselves down enough to create the sort of atmosphere it needs? Can they find anyone as beautiful as Sean Young?
I liked it as well. The cheesy 80s props were kinda cool IMO. Thought the German Duke was miscast.
However, he was an AWESOME U boat Captain!!!!
Have you seen American Gangster?
IMO, DW can probably play any part believably.
I think this is a bad idea. One of the great parts about Blade Runner was it kept you wondering if Deckard could be a replicant himself. If they show him alive, a few decades later, having aged like any ordinary human, then I think that spoils the mystery.
Don't count on it.
I thought Jürgen Prochnow did a great job in both “Dune” and “Das Boot.” The late Kenneth McMillan was magnificent as Baron Vladimir Harkonnen.
What?? {^) Love it or hate it, I guess. I loved the old Shatner Star Treks and was okay with the Next Generation for a while, then they lost me. But I absolutely loved the new Star Treks with Pine & whatshisname. Two movies so far, right? Except for the stupidly gratuitous scene of the kid racing around in a Corvette (totally moronic) in the first one, both films exceeded my expectations! {^) I love 'em!
My favorite scene was in the pilot episode. The baddys are chasing him in the car. He comes to a sliding stop steps out of the car and pulls a rifle on them. They speed off and he says to the "client" I under esti9mated them, I won't make that mistake again. Almost as if he is ordering a drink at the bar.
Loathing and visceral contempt would be too complimentary as to how I feel about J.J. Abrams abortion. It is Faux Trek to me.
“I’ll tell you why I personally don’t believe it, and that’s because when he fought against the other replicants, they all beat him to a pulp. He would’ve had their equal strength, especially if he was a law enforcement officer (after all, if Daryl Hannah’s Pris, the “Pleasure Model”, was that powerful, it wouldn’t make sense if a cop wasn’t).”
The implication was that he would have been from the new line of even more human-like replicants, like Rachel, since he seemed to have false memories like she did. So there’s really no telling if he would have had the same “specs” as the Nexus Six models. The new replicants weren’t supposed to know that they were any different from humans, and if they had superhuman strength, that would be a dead giveaway.
That was Rutger Hauer, not Dolph Lundgren.
A metaphor for the colonization of America. Sadly, the Sons of Liberty have run out of continents and territories to move to on this particular rock. The brave and the enterprising run towards opportunity and freedom and tame the wilderness and then the slackers follow and congregate in petri dish cities where brilliant insights are found, but mostly where scum manifests and blooms.
yeah he was around 35 when he did star wars. hard to believe.
Rutger Hauer and Blade Runner - "30 years ago I saw the future"
Leave the film alone. No sequels, prequels or equals.
Great case. Beautiful women. Hard-boiled men. and f***king rain all the time.
However, if they are going to make a sequel to “Blade Runner”, it might be called “Dull-Edged Medical Walker” since Harrison Ford will probably have to use one to make the film. He ain’t no spring chicken Toto!
Sounds good. You should help write the screenplay. (I hope to do the same on another subject someday.)
The truly great things about Blade Runner, in no particular order.
1) The music by Vangelis. The soundtrack CD is still being sold after all this time, and has had one or two revisions with additional material.
2) The use of the Bradbury Building (1893) set. It is one of the more famous science fiction sets and beloved by fans. It was designed by the grandfather of science fiction and fantasy “superfan” Forrest J. Ackerman. Marvel Comics has an office in the building.
3) The Los Angeles cityscape. It passes the “travelogue” test of a city so interesting that you would be entertained just traveling around it as a tourist.
4) The 1940s costumes and hairstyles. While done to support the ‘noir’ feel, it also signaled this was the style of the wealthy and powerful.
5) The dissonant elements. Things that intentionally broke the mood, that worked to prevent assumptions about the flow of the plot.
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