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Ridley Scott to Direct Another Blade Runner It Wont Be a Remake
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Ridley Scott is returning to his roots, revisiting his definitive -- and beloved -- cyberpunk film "Blade Runner," for Alcon Entertainment.
Filmmakers haven't hired a writer yet, and are still figuring out what the story will be, producer Andrew Kosove told TheWrap Thursday.
"This is arguably the greatest science fiction movie ever made and we're not remaking it," he said. "It's a prequel or a sequel."
Alcon secured the rights to "Blade Runner" for prequels, sequels and other projects last March.
They knew then that they wanted Scott to direct.
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"I'm not saying we wouldn't have come up with a Plan B," Kosove, Alcon's co-founder and co-CEO, said. "But the idea was always to go right to Ridley and that's exactly what we did."
Having Scott attached "gives people a level of comfort about how serious we are," Kosove said.
Kosove said the movie's themes "are even more relevant today than they were almost 30 years ago."
The 1982 movie is about Rick Deckard, a "blade runner" played by Harrison Ford. His job is to terminate "replicants," or human clones who are bred to work.
"No one could have envisioned from a technical standpoint how quickly the world would advance over the last three decades," Kosove said. "The question is, 'What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to have humanity? ... Both as a philosophical matter and also as a narrative matter, there are lots of jumping-off points from 'Bladerunner' to make something that is inspired by 'Bladerunner.'"
Kosove said it'll be up to Scott to decide whether to invite Ford to return, but "I do not anticipate it."
He said he'd like to have the movie inn production in a year-and-a-half.
"There will be one more announcement we will make before we go dark for a while," he said. "We have to figure out who the writer is going to be and a general framework for the movie."
Alcon bought the rights from producer-director Bud Yorkin, who will produce the new film along with Alcon, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and Broderick Johnson and Kosove. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, the CEOs of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.
Meanwhile, Scott is in postproduction on "Prometheus," a sort-of prequel to his classic 1979 "Alien," for Fox.
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i thought he was working on "the forever war"?
(Edit: He's doing both so you'll get blade runner after 2013)
Ridley Scott had said he wanted to make an adaptation of the Forver War, and Joe Halderman has said that a film adaptation of his novel was moving forward, but no where did I ever see a concrete statement that Scott was actually attached to the project. Also I thought Scott was working on "Brave New World".
As to Bladerunner, K.W. Jeter wrote some decent sequels to the film, I wonder if they will use his work for the new film. Though I think a prequel where we get to see more of Replicants in action, instead of just a continuation of Deckard's story, would kick serious ass.
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Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
I wonder if Harrison Ford is too old or not interested?...BTW I am still waiting on the Final Star Wars from George Lucas but I guess he has made too much money to be trifled with them
Another Star Wars?Another great example of Moore's Law. Give people access to that much space (developers and users alike) and they'll find uses for it that you can never imagine. "640K ought to be enough for anybody" - Bill Gates 1981
Ridley scott doesn't typically do sequels
I think Hannibal and Prometheus are the only ones he's done and although Prometheus is set in the Alien universe, from what I've heard, it's not really an Alien film - it's more about the space jockey you see in the first movie.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/oct/13/ridley-scott-forever-war