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Just saw this and though y'all might be interested... http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/feb/06/harrison-ford-blade-runner-sequelHarrison Ford 'in talks' for Blade Runner sequelActor set to reprise role as Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's forthcoming follow-up to his 1982 sci-fi classic, reports sayBen Child guardian.co.uk, Monday 6 February 2012 12.59 GMT Harrison Ford is lining up to make a surprise return to the role of Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner sequel, Twitchfilm reports. Ford is apparently in early talks to return as the replicant nemesis in Scott's forthcoming followup to his 1982 sci-fi classic. If the prediction turns out to be true, it would be even more of a shock than the news in March last year that the veteran British film-maker was to shoot a new Blade Runner film. Scott had dismissed rumours of another Blade Runner film for nearly three decades, and his producer Andrew Kosove denied suggestions Ford might be involved in the new film as recently as last August.
"Twitch has learned that Harrison Ford has entered into early talks to join the new Blade Runner," reports the US site. "While this is still very early stages and it is quite possible that things won't work out the obvious implication is that what we are looking at is not a reboot but a direct sequel to the original."
Based on the 1968 Philip K Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner was not a hit at the time but has gathered plaudits over the years. Set in an overpopulated future Los Angeles that never sees the sunlight, Scott's movie is about a "blade runner", played by Ford, who is tasked with hunting down a gang of replicants (android outlaws) who have escaped to Earth from an off-world colony. The film-maker left the audience to decide whether Deckard himself is a replicant.
Negative criticism of the film was largely reversed with the arrival in 1992 of Scott's director's cut, which excised the original's voiceover and a pegged-on "happy ending". Dick never wrote a sequel to the book, so Scott will probably be aiming to produce an original story. Three follow-up novels by Dick's friend, KW Jeter, were written between 1995 and 2000 to try to resolve some of the differences between Blade Runner and its source novel, but they were poorly received.
Prior to working on Blade Runner 2, which may or may not be his next film, Scott will make his long-awaited return to science fiction with Prometheus, a film "set in the same universe" as Alien, his cult 1979 slasher in space. The film, which stars Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce and Idris Elba, opens in the UK on 1 June. |
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« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2012, 09:31:49 AM » |
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Man I wish it were April 1 reading this  |
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« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2012, 10:50:49 AM » |
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Man I wish it were April 1 reading this It's not very inspiring is it ? Ford returns as a bad replicant,how obvious,must have taken minutes to come up with that master stroke. Stew |
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Harry Caul
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« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2012, 10:51:25 AM » |
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Man I wish it were April 1 reading this +1  Well, if they are going to make it, I really hope the pre-Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade shows up for work (Conversation, Apoc Now, Blade Runner, Witness, Mosquito Coast, Frantic, etc...). After TLC it seems like he has played every roll with his trademark smirk and a wink. That would be totally inappropriate here. By the way, I guess this also means Deckard is *not* a replicant, as many had surmised. His time would have run out long ago. The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long and all that... |
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« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2012, 11:10:01 AM » |
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I'm thinking Godfather III bad (or worse!)
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« Reply #5 on: February 06, 2012, 11:17:11 AM » |
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« Reply #6 on: February 06, 2012, 12:12:21 PM » |
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By the way, I guess this also means Deckard is *not* a replicant, as many had surmised. His time would have run out long ago. The candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long and all that...
Not necessarily - Deckard and Rachel are both Nexus 7 models  |
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« Reply #7 on: February 06, 2012, 01:53:08 PM » |
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Not necessarily - Deckard and Rachel are both Nexus 7 models But Nexus 7 models were supposed to have a nearly unlimited life span (immortal?). How will they explain his rapid aging? Nerds everywhere want to know! |
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« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2012, 01:59:40 PM » |
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But Nexus 7 models were supposed to have a nearly unlimited life span (immortal?). How will they explain his rapid aging? Nerds everywhere want to know! Nasty computer virus (and being with a middle-aged Rachel) of course! |
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« Reply #9 on: February 06, 2012, 02:12:20 PM » |
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Nasty computer virus (and being with a middle-aged Rachel) of course!
They could de-age him, a la Jeff Bridges... Stew |
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« Reply #10 on: February 06, 2012, 02:50:37 PM » |
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« Reply #11 on: February 06, 2012, 03:05:52 PM » |
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They could de-age him, a la Jeff Bridges...
Stew
Damn you Stew - I had successfully purged that debacle from my mind until now |
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« Reply #12 on: February 06, 2012, 03:40:43 PM » |
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These are just rumors, folks. I'll bet anything that Ford will not be in it.
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« Reply #13 on: February 06, 2012, 05:51:37 PM » |
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These are just rumors, folks. I'll bet anything that Ford will not be in it.
I'm of a like mind. |
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« Reply #15 on: February 07, 2012, 09:30:06 PM » |
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Any publicity is good publicity? I have a feeling this film may never materialize regardless - they don't even have a story or writer yet! |
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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2012, 06:05:50 PM » |
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I have a feeling this film may never materialize regardless - they don't even have a story or writer yet!
I really hope it doesn't. BR is my favorite film and I can't imagine ever liking a sequel/reboot/whatever of it. |
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« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2012, 09:55:59 PM » |
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I really hope it doesn't. BR is my favorite film and I can't imagine ever liking a sequel/reboot/whatever of it.
Yeah I would say the original has been tinkered with enough already? |
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