Harrison Ford Loves the Blade Runner 2 Script

Says its the best thing he's ever read, in fact.

Isn't he all senile and shit now?

Hmm, I somehow expect this to bring the same quality that the Two Jake's brought to Chinatown. Hopefully I'm wrong.

No more so than you are.

It has potential, I'll need to see details of the story before I get excited. What I think would be really cool, but what they probably won't do, is set the new film just a few years after the last one ended, so you have Deckard the replicant having to come to grips with aging rapidly, and not being able to experience much of life.

I know everyone loves to speculate that Deckard was a replicant, but I always preferred to see Deckard as a flesh and blood human. If you see him as a replicant, his salvation by a replicant and subsequent redemption is much less poignant.

However, if he's a human sociopath, a replicant that truly appreciates life, and saves the human who would have killed him, is much more meaningful.

That's pretty cool, and I actually never thought of it that way, mostly because I haven't seen it as a redemption story. I've always thought of it as Deckard not saved, so much as exposed when it's already too late. Sure, he drives off with the girl, but presumably only to die, knowing the terrible truth of what he has done.

Yeah, good points. The true salvation if there is one is Batty, saving Deckard and whatnot. I still stick with my point that Deckard is human and hope the story continues that way.

Well, he would say he loved it, wouldn't he?
We really don't need a sequel. The original is perfect.

Blade Runner 2: Replicant Boogaloo is confirmed.

I really feel uneasy about this. The original movie is so much. It's a classic that inspired so much of the sci-fi that came after it, and arguably continues to have an influence to this day, thanks to modern movies that try to ape it (like the recent Total Recall reboot). The original is a classic '80s sci-fi, but any sequel is probably going to be more along the lines of what modern movies are doing, and that thought kind of makes me sad (like the recent Total Recall reboot). It also seems kind of pointless, as the movie was perfectly self-contained. Added on to that is all this time that's passed, and it's actually even a bit worse than another Harrison Ford vehicle that got a sequel more recently (note the visual joke toward the end of this clip ).



I'm not going to dismiss this out of hand exactly, but I can't help but feel a bit worried.

I'm not opposed in theory to a sequel, but I do have problems with the idea of Ford reprising Deckard as an old man. One of the great things about Blade Run can be found in the discussion @evenflow and I had up thread. Will a sequel provide definitive answers? Likely, because either Deckard is not a replicant, or what we know about replicant aging is wrong, which kind of ruins Batty's death scene. Either way, I don't really want an answer to the question of Deckard's status.

I'm sure there are great stories to tell in the Bladeverse, just not sure it should involve any familiar characters.

This movie is doomed to fail unless they conscript Sean Young, complete with whiskey bottle.

It really depends upon what they do with the characters, and how they handle the subject.

Sean Young definitely needs to be in it.

ETA: She's in the new Star Trek Renegades TV pilot with Walter Koenig, Tim Russ, Robert Picardo, Richard Herd, Corin Nemec, Edward Furlong, and Grant Imahara (Mythbusters).

Sadly, no Sean Young. http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/sean-young-says-she-wont-be-back-for-blade-runner-2-20150327

Looks like Dave Bautista wants to say something.

In other news, Princess Buttercup/Claire Underwood has signed on for the film.

They better not screw this up. Blade Runner isn't just a movie, it's art. And beautiful poetry.

Robin Wright I'm cool with. Ryan Gosling and Bautista? Not so much. They'll have to convince me.

I'll eat my hat if I'm wrong, but I'd bet that this films is going to suck donkey balls.

Funny, I thought it was "cool" for folks like you to be progressive and give sequels and reboots their chance....

MacKenzie Davis has signed on. http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/06/07/mackenzie-davis-to-join-blade-runner-sequel/

I never saw what the big deal was about Blade Runner anyway? Good movie in my opinion, but we're not talking Citizen Kane or The French Connection here.

Better than Citizen Kane (which is highly over rated). On a par with the French Connection.

I liked her in The Martian. I liked how the glasses she wore made her eyes seem abnormally big.

Citizen Kane is best watched on DVD/BRD with one of the commentary tracks on discussing the making of the film (especially the cinematography).

Storywise/actingwise it's pretty meh and not that different from many of its contemporaries.

The cinematography is excellent and saves an otherwise mediocre film. But it doesn't deserve the reputation just for mastery in one element.

I always thought parts of its reputation was due to the role it played in inspiring an interest in movies about high tech future dystopias.

Shakespeare? Just a bunch of old cliches...

The problem with hugely influential films (like Citizen Kane) is that they seem pretty typical when viewed retrospectively. That's because we live in a world where movies routinely use techniques pioneered in them.

When I watch it I do so from a purely historical perspective (same as with Eisenstein films).

Birth of a Nation is pretty unwatchable by modern standards, but, man, does it introduce a lot of standard techniques in film-making.