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Original Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher in talks to write Blade Runner 2
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Thursday, May 17, 2012
The days are counting down to the release of Ridley Scott's return to science fiction, Prometheus. Meanwhile, we know that Scott is involved with creatively shaping a second movie set in the same universe of Blade Runner, the director's now-classic 1982 movie that celebrates its original release 30 years ago next month.
News has been thin about the second Blade Runner movie project until today's announcement that screenwriter Hampton Fancher is in discussions to write the screenplay to the sequel. And yes, I said "sequel", for it's now confirmed that the direction that Scott and his producing partners want to take with Blade Runner 2 is a continuation to the '82 picture.
Fancher adapted the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into the screenplay for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. Although the movie's storyline did differ from the source novel, Dick gave his blessing to the cinematic adaptation of his work. The novel's major themes remain intact in the movie (such as the question of whether artificially created intelligence can have the same rights as humans, much less their own soul) but enough differences exist in the film to separate it from the book.
In a statement Broderick Johnson and and Andrew Kosove, two of the Blade Runner sequel's producers, "It is a perfect opportunity to reunite Ridley with Hampton on this new project, one in fact inspired by their own personal collaboration, a classic of cinema if there ever was one.”
The producers also said that the Blade Runner sequel is set "some years after the first film concluded."
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