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'm also in the minority of people who didn't care for Blade Runner and don't see why its considered a "sci-fi classic". I've tried watching it twice. One of these days I'm going to have to try watching the original theatrical version with the "unnecessary" Harrison Ford voiceover, maybe it will help explain whats going on.
I totally dug the first JJ Trek. The four Next Generation films were putrid garbage. All four would have been great TV episodes, but were abysmal, boring, silly films. I actually left the theater during Nemesis. Only Insurrection had some redeeming qualities.
JJ Abrams saved Star Trek with his “reboot”. While the hardcore Trek fans love to trash it, it brought a lot of new fans into the fold and its simply a fun ride. The Trek franchise really needed that as the Next Generation films (along with that semi-silly Voyager and DS9 nonsense) nearly killed it all off.
Now “ Into Darkness” was awful. JJ was pretty much given a clean slate for that film and chose to retell an existing story. That was flat out stupid, lazy writing and started to tarnish Star Trek on the big screen yet again. I hope they turn things around in the next one. After JJ ruins Star Wars, Trek will be the only big time, big screen sci-fi franchise left :-).
Owch!!! Well, one man’s paradise is another man’s hell.
I'd suggest not trying to get too concerned with details. Fans like to look at tiny details and discuss them, but Blade Runner is really painted with a broad brush, with big themes. What is human? What does being human mean? What is life? What is the value of a life?
Ford can come back and play the role Emmet Walsh played. I still love that line. “We need you, Deck.”
Not bad for an outdated skinjob.
I thought Harrison Ford's best part was when Toad says, "Hey, nobody can beat him, man. He's got the fastest..." and then Ford says, " I ain't nobody, dork!" and Toad kind of slinks down. Pretty funny
Indiana Jones and the Old Country Buffet was a mistake, and he’s even older now.
He would have to be the mentor to a younger protagonist, right? Or maybe Blade Runners track down old people at this point so he’s running for his life, lol.
Try Rutger Hauer.
I loved Toad. But John Milner was my favorite character. If'd I have been one of the girls in the movie, I'd have been ga-ga over him! {^)
two thumbs up on the Baron and his brother and Sting.
I wasn’t a car guy, but these guys reminded me of my buddies in the group I hung around with in high school. We were kind of the “in crowd” (I sort of snuck in). They liked me because I was funny.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
“I worry we’d end up with a black hole of a sequel filled with the likes of Channing Tatum, the nadir of leading men in today’s Hollyweird.”
Ford in the Bryant role. Keep Sean Young as his squeeze toy. That is a subplot which comes into play later on in the movie. The Deckard role I would give to Benjamin Cumberpatch (star trek into the darkness) Want someone recognizable but not a big star and can pull off the noir.
Willem Dafoe runs the company. The Hauer role is tough to fill. Maybe Billy Zane. Or switch Zane and Cumberpatch. I would stick with Olmos as Bryant’s sidekick.
As for women, I couldn’t fathom a guess. Maybe Natalie Portman.
Blade Runner is an allegory about the difference between what is moral and what is legal.
Just because a black robed dictator says it is legal to kill something that is clearly human (not animal, vegetable, or mineral) is it morally right? Think about abortion.
The ending with Hauer shows that he loved life so much he couldn’t kill Ford.
Vangelis scoring a sequel is a must. It wouldn’t be BR without it.
I’m surprised you don’t care for it.
Which guys? You mean Kurt (Dreyfuss) and Steve (Howard), or Toad and Milner?
Car guys are a breed. I dated one once. He had a beautiful midnight blue 67 Mustang that had a monster engine in it, the thing just rumbled as it purred. He was a good mechanic.
Speaking as a gal, I was probably more toward the Steve/Laurie and Kurt angle in my very small high school. The weird thing about high school social imprinting is that it's permanent within its context. People grow and mature in every other aspect of their lives, but put them in a room filled with people they went to high school with, and everyone immediately reverts to the old standards, it is absolutely amazing. I love it!
I knew Indiana Jones and the Old Country Buffet was going to suck when Sean Connery passed on having a cameo in it.
Whatever fecal matter they try passing off as “Blade Runner 2” will be some PC pablum wrapped up in Harrison’s wrinkles.
Pass.
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