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Blade Runner is overrated.
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Ridley Scott to direct, produce new Blade Runner movie
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Thursday, August 18, 2011
Ridley Scott will return back to the universe of replicants, spinner cars and rain-soaked streets. Scott will direct and produce a new movie set within the Blade Runner world, though details on whether the story will be a sequel to the 1982 movie, a prequel or one featuring a new set of characters remains unknown right now.
What matters is the big story: Ridley Scott is making a follow-up to Blade Runner. Holy crap.
Also returning is original Blade Runner producer Bud Yorkin. Alcon Entertainment is producing the movie and they have a deal at Warner Bros., making this new Blade Runner film a go for being released under the WB shield. Also producing are Alcon execs Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove; Cynthia Sikes Yorkin; and Ridley Scott too. Executive producer credits will be given to Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble of Thunderbird Films.
There's no quotes from anyone working on this new Blade Runner idea yet, so I only have my own speculation to go on as to why Scott wants to revisit the world of Rick Deckard and Roy Batty. My guess is that working on Prometheus, the semi-prequel to Alien, gave him some kind of creative charge to be open to exploring more of the world presented in Blade Runner.
If there is going to be more films set within the Blade Runner universe, then Ridley Scott is the man that I want to see at the captain's wheel. The downside is this: Blade Runner is considered one of the most seminal movies made in the past three decades, and one of the best science fiction movies ever. Going back to rain-soaked Los Angeles, if that will indeed be the place we'll see in the new movie, will open the door to direct comparison of the first movie. Special effects technology might have improved but if the new Blade Runner story doesn't move us emotionally the way the original did, it's going to be noticable. Can Scott recapture not just the magic of the visuals but the heart of the replicants' plight as genetically created slaves? Can a screenwriter write a scene of such beauty as the words Rutger Hauer delivered just as Roy Batty was about to die?
Even with Ridley Scott at the helm of this new Blade Runner, it's going to be a challenge -- but one that will be extremely interesting to see develop.
-Alcon Entertainment.
mckracken wrote:
Yes, they can... this is precisely what screenwriters are paid very large amounts of cash to do...
Just because a screenwriter gets paid a lot of money to write a script doesn't mean the script is going to be any good. According to this screenwriting blog, the screenwriters for Zookeeper received a total of $3 million for writing that piece-of-shit movie.
Daltons chin dimple wrote:
Blade Runner is overrated.
I like it :(
i like Blade Runner too... and it's sequel Blade and all of that movie's sequels too.
if they keep re-editing Blade Runner, pretty soon, they might have another cut that would also link it into the Ridley Scott Alien universe too. (just barely mentioning that it takes place on the same Earth that is referenced numerous times (but never shown) in all the Alien movies would be cool)
The fan in me is excited. The realist adult in me thinks it's kinda sad that Rid's going back to the filmography well twice.
@Mal Shot First - Re: ZOOKEEPER - I read the original spec, and it was a great, sweet, all-ages film that with a little work could have been Pixar quality. Dunno the production history, but along the way they jettisoned fun for an attempt at PAUL BLART, ZOO COP. And the people stayed away in droves...
Already plotting revenge...
PS - Let's hope that if Rid does shoot this film, they get another brilliant painted one-sheet like the one Pat ran above (Struzan, right?).
Already plotting revenge...
is anybody still producing movie posters like the one above? i havent seen one in years till Captain America was released.... for years all we've been getting are floating heads and cheap photoshopped pictures of the actors in the movies... nobody had been painting movie posters like the old Raiders of the lost Ark and the star wars trilogy movie posters...have they?
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Can Scott recapture not just the magic of the visuals but the heart of the replicants' plight as genetically created slaves?
Yes, Absolutely he can... question is... is this a cash grab or something he'd really like to revisit again or perhaps he is worried that somebody out there will remake Blade Runner before he does?
Can a screenwriter write a scene of such beauty as the words Rutger Hauer delivered just as Roy Batty was about to die?
Yes, they can... this is precisely what screenwriters are paid very large amounts of cash to do... again the question is.. is the heart in the right place on the second go-round? is this a cash grab? are they worried that somebody will beat them to the punch and make a Blade Runner sequel/prequel/reboot/ re-imaginine and maybe call their version "Knife Sprinter"?