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[Alexcremers]

A prequel?! Set before 2019? I don't see that happening, Steef.

[Chaac]

The year was only put there for plot purposes.

I usually avoid the date when I write sci-fi.

[Alexcremers]

In the book it's 2020, I think, but Scott didn't want that.

[Stefancos]

A prequel?! Set before 2019? I don't see that happening, Steef.

Well Scott can easily change the date in Blade Runner to make it something like 2059 or something. It's not like that film has not been tinkered with before.

[Chaac]

It's not about the date, it's about what's the point of it

[Alexcremers]

A prequel?! Set before 2019? I don't see that happening, Steef.

Well Scott can easily change the date in Blade Runner to make it something like 2059 or something. It's not like that film has not been tinkered with before.

That would form a problem with the film's blend of the past and the future. Put it too far in the future and there's no more past. The date will not change. It will not be a prequel.



Alex

[Stefancos]

Then a straight sequel ala 2010: The Year We Went Back, literally explaining what happened in the first film.

[Jason LeBlanc]

Then a straight sequel ala 2010: The Year We Went Back, literally explaining what happened in the first film.

[Stefancos]

Hey, you expect me to remember that naff title.

[Alexcremers]

Then a straight sequel ala 2010: The Year We Went Back, literally explaining what happened in the first film.

[Stefancos]

Will they at least involve Trumbull in this film?

[Alexcremers]

The question is: Will Trumbull be interested? They don't even have a script yet.

[Stefancos]

You really think they will need a script?

[Alexcremers]

Or Ridley has to come up with at least some very concrete ideas. Anyway, I no longer see Ridley working with these type of special artists. Did he ask Giger for Prometheus? No, he just continues working with the same crew from the previous film or so. Ridley is a factory. To him Blade Runner 2 is just one of the many, many projects he will do in the next few years.


Still, the few photos on board of the Prometheus looked promising. It's like he can perfectly duplicate the atmophere of a 30 year old movie.

[Stefancos]

No, he just continues working with the same crew from the previous film or so. Ridley is a factory.

Like Spielberg? Like the Bond people? Like Scorsese?

[Alexcremers]

Yeah, he should be more like Kubrick, Malick or Dominik.

[Stefancos]

"Ridley Scott updated the status of the second movie, saying it's, "Liable to be a sequel...I think I'm close to finding a writer that might be able to help me deliver. We're quite a long way in, actually." He said an entirely new cast will be involved. Asked if Harrison Ford will be returning, Scott replied, "No, not really." Scott also commented on PROMETHEUS, his quasi prequel to ALIEN, "the central metaphor of the film is about a "higher being" who challenges the gods, and the gods don't want to give him fire. "Fire is our first form of technology," Scott says, and so by taking fire, the higher being is punished "in perpetuity in a horrible fashion.". Much like the story of the mythological god, Prometheus, who stole fire from Zeus and for his actions was bound to a rock with an eagle eternally devouring his liver." Scott said the last eight minutes of PROMETHEUS is "a pretty good DNA of the ALIEN one."

[Alexcremers]

When they still were gods ...









Alex

[Stefancos]

I think Hauer comes out best these days. He certainly did not decline as much as ford.

[BloodBoal]

I think Hauer comes out best these days. He certainly did not decline as much as ford.

Yeah, he should replace Ford in Indy 5.

[Alexcremers]

I thought Ford finally looked better again in Indy 4. He has to stay in shape to look good.

Hauer sure had balls for wearing that shirt but I must admit he can take it.



Alex

[Stefancos]

Hauer in his prime (1980's) looked like a blond Norse God. And he's aged very gracefully. Looking weathered, but well kept.

[Alexcremers]

Kate Perry perfectly suited for a Rachael model in Blade Runner 2? Personally, I have nothing against it.

[Stefancos]

Can she act?

[Alexcremers]

Could Sean Young act?

[Stefancos]

Good point...

[Quint]

Plus there's a lot the costume designers could do with Perry's rack.

[Stefancos]

[Alexcremers]

Ridley Scott appears not to be kidding when he said he will make BR 2 right after Prometheus. Just like in the old days ...

http://www.jwfan.com...pic=19815&st=80


I'm already afraid for the news that Streitenfeld (or equivalent) will do the score.



Alex

[Alexcremers]

Interviewer: Ridley Scott broke the news to us a few months ago that he’s working on a sequel to “Blade Runner.” Do you welcome this news, or does it sound a little risky?

William Gibson (author): "If anyone could pull it off, it would be Ridley Scott. But the idea of franchise, rather than one-off films, becoming the actual form, strikes me as decadent. Blade Runner is a classic, on the order of Citizen Kane. What would a sequel to Citizen Kane have done to the original?"

http://blogs.wsj.com...an/?mod=WSJBlog

Alex

[Stefancos]

Blade Runner part deux will in no way diminish or increase the brilliance of the original.

[Chaac]

I wouldn't be much against a completely different story set in the same universe.

Maybe a story in space. So we see the things we wouln't believe...

[Stefancos]

The outer colonies! Attack ships on fire!

[Jason LeBlanc]

I wouldn't be much against a completely different story set in the same universe.

Maybe a story in space. So we see the things we wouln't believe...

They already made a completely different story set in the same universe. It was called Soldier, was directed by Paul WS Anderson, and starred Kurt Russell. I'm not joking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_%28film%29#Blade_Runner

[Alexcremers]

And written by David Peoples, no less.


Alex - who expects BR2 to be a story driven film

[Chaac]

I know I know, I haven't seen it but I was thinking on that.

[Stefancos]

Alex - who expects BR2 to be a story driven film

Surely not!

[Alexcremers]

Sorry but that's the way things are going now.

[Stefancos]

But...but...maybe he will use a non linear narrative, or treat the story in a philisophical manner?

[Chaac]

Nah, Blade Runner is hardly complicated.

In fact, when I saw it I was surprised. I was expecting something much more slow and cerebral. And when I get to Deckard going through the apartments looking for Batty, I was like "What? This is it?"