[Closed] Ridley Scott to direct a new Blade Runner

Hmmm, interesting. I knew about [i]Promethius[/i], which, from what I gather is only loosely connected with[i]Alien[/i], going off on a tangent to much bigger themes, apparently to do more with the wrecked starship pilot. I hadn't heard about [i]Blade Runner[/i], but I would hazard a guess that Scott will again go off in another direction, he famously dislikes returning to older films to do sequels so who knows? Maybe showing what Takships on fire off the shoulder of Orion actually look like. I'm sure it'll be visually arresting, with the technology available nowadays.

err...
pretty much exactly what pedalhead said.
i'd like to say that i have faith in mister scott, but i'm really not sure about this.

Sounds ace!

Will Megan Fox be in it?

After what Lucas did I am excited beyond words for the artistic treat in store.
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serious geek point for knowing the line ..you all do dont you 😀

Takships on fire off the shoulder of Orion actually look like

Attack ships was it not?

yes typo surely
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I've watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die

poetry 🙂

serious geek point for knowing the line ..you all do dont you

Indulge me.......i'll get my coat

As unexcited as one could be.

Well, it is 29 years old so due a remake 😉

If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes!

Just leave it be! It's great as it is, don't go adding a backstory/forward story,all that crap, embellishing the characters etc. It's a film moment in time for me. It's not gonna be made any better, as the thing that is good about it is partly to do with the time it was made and the techniques used. It looks brilliant cos of the constrictions and ingenuity. Ridley could make whatever now with CGI etc, he hasn't made a better film since IMO. I like the fact that it is impenetrable to start off with and some of it you have to make up yourself, and the ambiguity. Why go explaining it with another new bit? leave it alone!

EDIT: on a tangent, there is a bloke comes into our local ASDA the spitting image of Ridley Scott. I keep having to resist the urge to ask him if the lighting is right and does he want more dry ice!

Junkyard - "and you have burned so very brightly Roy" ??

part of the deal with the owners of the rights is taht the film cant be remade or rebooted so it has to be a sequel or a prequel or something else, like prometheu is gonna be?

tbh until ive seen prometheus i will be undecided about this

Do you think Roy Batty and Emily Batty are related?

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I was quoting from memory and forgot it was Attack ships rather than Tac ships, which is how small fast interceptors are referred to in something I was reading recently. My memory isn't as good as Roy Battey's. Sadly.
Deadly, go back to your crochet work, we know you couldn't give a toss about any pop. culture subjects, and have nothing significant to contribute other than sniffy dismissal.

It won't be worth watching if Sean Young isn't in it 🙁

My local fishmonger is in the High St, not at the Tannhauser Gate, which might explain why I've never seen sea breams glitter at night

[i]Do you think Roy Batty and Emily Batty are related?[/i]

Do you think she might be a basic pleasure model? That would work for me to be honest.

Is a follow up to Bladerunner really necessary? I like the ambiguity as to whether Deckert is a replicant or not. I also like the vision of the future.

What is there to resolve, other than to make more money out of a franchise?

There wasn't much ambiguity in Philip K Dick's book as to whether Deckard is a replicant.

Was never a fan of Sean Young, I'm afraid. Classic film though.

Prometheus sounds amazing!

If you thought about it for long enough and watched the director's cut, it was obvious that Deckert was a replicant. Not quite so with the original version with the pointless voiceover.

Sean Young? Amazingly beautiful and vulnerable as Rachel but apparently she's a pain in the harris to work with.

It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response

Beautiful - absolutely. Acting? Nah... If you watch her in No Way Out it's painful...

Agreed - she was dire in No Way Out. Costner wasn't much better.

DavidB - Member
It's a test designed to provoke an emotional response

slainte 😉 rob

I like the ambiguity as to whether Deckert is a replicant or not.

See, your answer here in in CZ's initial follow-up.

Scott isn't big on revisiting IP. He was doing an Alien prequel for about 20 minutes, then went "made you look!" and announced it was something else entirely.

I'd bet this is the same. To me, the big news here is "RS doing more sci-fi" - a *quel to Bladerunner is both unlikely and undesireable, but a Ridley spin-off in the same world? Sign me up.

My local fishmonger is in the High St, not at the Tannhauser Gate, which might explain why I've never seen sea breams glitter at night

Proper gave me the giggles, that did.

I really like the voice over on the first version, went to see it with an ex without it and she didnt have a clue what was going on.

The first version is quite ambiguous about Deckard being a replicant, the newer versions witht the Unicorn dream make it pretty obvious what Deckard is.

Junkyard is he saying well that's a little out of my jurisdiction

He say you braid runner!

Of course if it was a sequel he could set it 30 years in the future and wouldnt even have to worry about Harrison Ford's make up. 😀

I don't want to watch the new version. Nothing can compare or better Blade Runner.

Just look at the **** with Star Wars.

bladerunner is my fave all time film 🙂

I'm amazed that you don't even consider 'age' with Blade Runner. Funny how alot of the film that followed in the 80's decade just look so dated compared. Does anyone else know Roy's last words by memory ..along with the pauses, pronunciation of 'moments' and the slight grimace?

Gawd I'm a geek.

of course.
i actually prefer the narrated version of the film

it's too bad she won't live, but then again who does

my first proper band was called Skinjob...

1freezingpenguin - Member

Well, it is 29 years old so due a remake

That makes me feel very old 😉

We did Bladerunner for A level media studies as our text.
How lucky were we! analised it (!)pulled it to pieces and put it back together again. It has to have the voice over! sets all the tone,

"They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer"

Right from the outset everything is past, "EX", there is no future, the clue is there right from the outset.

Well it doesn't say he is remaking blade runner anywhere but in the title, so hopefully it'll be a seperate prequel or sequel story. It can't be anything but the phantom menace is to star wars though. There was a very good making of documentary on the BBC recently, worth seeing if you haven't.

sorry i did not answer the first person got it
indulge me - hence the reason I picked it

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"These are my friends... I made them"

Marvellous!

if ridley scott is directing,have high hope for the film.he knows the impact that blade runner made,has respect for the material e.t.c. but most of all he isn't paul w.s anderson,uwe boll,m night shalymannharamannmann (or any other so called director who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a camera 😉 i think the film will be great 🙂

Ineffable - struggling for words to describe what I feel about this. I’ll try - LEAVE IT A-F’ING-LONE FFS.

Bladerunner is my favorite film. It’s a highly stylized, hypnotic masterwork that deals with the whole range of human emotions - rich in detail, long in message. It doesn’t need a remake, new version or whatever - this news has pi55ed me off a tad.

Have a better one.

It's amazing what 2 years of going past Billingham's ICI works on the top deck of a bus can do to a man's imagination.

What is there to resolve, other than to make more money out of a franchise?

deluded - Member
Ineffable - struggling for words to describe what I feel about this. I’ll try - LEAVE IT A-F’ING-LONE FFS.
Bladerunner is my favorite film. It’s a highly stylized, hypnotic masterwork that deals with the whole range of human emotions - rich in detail, long in message. It doesn’t need a remake, new version or whatever - this news has pi55ed me off a tad.
Have a better one.

It's
Just
A
Film...

Bloody hell, have you read any of this post at all? We've been over this, there is no indication anywhere that Scott is doing a remake. Scott has made it clear in the past that he does not like doing sequels. So where does that leave us? In the same place as Promethius, a film set in the same 'universe', connected to events but dot a direct continuation of those events. There, does that make things clear enough, or do I have to resort to single syllables?

Thanks for that.

According to one of the producers Andre Kosove it is undecided whether the movie will be a prequel, sequel or spin-off of the original - what I'm saying is I don't want them going anywhere near it. I'm not keen on it becoming a franchise.

Hey. 🙂

Wind your necks in everyone. Its Friday night and we're declaring (in most cases) our appreciation of this great film.

I really don't care what they come up with.
For me, they can't touch the original.
The original is done, I have a copy, and I love to watch it, making special effort to take in all the imagery and atmos the film can convey to one who makes the effort to [i][b]watch[/b][/i] it.

The film, imo, can be appreciated on so many different levels.
Furthermore, the cast, mostly is / was just [i]right[/i] for that film.

The new film will be, for me, totaly seperate from the original.

So its simple for me. If it does materialize, I'll go see it just as another film.
While offering it the chance to touch me as the original did / does.

The original Bladerunner is, a wonderful entertainmnent.
If you appreciate that sort of thing.

😀

Solo - Member

Hey.

Wind your necks in everyone. Its Friday night and we're declaring (in most cases) our appreciation of this great film.

I really don't care what they come up with.
For me, they can't touch the original.
The original is done, I have a copy, and I love to watch it, making special effort to take in all the imagery and atmos the film can convey to one who makes the effort to watch it.

The film, imo, can be appreciated on so many different levels.
Furthermore, the cast, mostly is / was just right for that film.

The new film will be, for me, totaly seperate from the original.

So its simple for me. If it does materialize, I'll go see it just as another film.
While offering it the chance to touch me as the original did / does.

The original Bladerunner is, a wonderful entertainmnent.
If you appreciate that sort of thing.

<sacrilege> Hopefully they'll drop the shite script and do a proper remake of [i]Do androids dream of electric sheep[/i] - Face it, blade runner is to androids, what starship troopers was to the book... </sacrilege>

I would recommend the book 'Future noir: the making of Blade Runner' if anyone hasn't read it. Goes through the whole process of the film from the script to filming. Well worth a read for any BR fan

[url= http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/21531/more-on-the-blade-runner-follow-up ]Yesterday's announcement of Ridley Scott returning to the world of "Blade Runner" which he created pretty much floored everyone with its unexpectedness. Now 24 Frames has done a feature piece explaining how Scott was brought back into the fold. In the process, they've revealed some new story details and a potential production schedule.

Alcon Entertainment landed the rights to the property earlier this year and were desperately keen on landing Scott for the film. Producers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson had a sit down meeting with Scott in London earlier this year where "they hashed out how a new film would look, how it could avoid seeming too similar to the many movies that have since paid homage to the original, and how different the new film should be from the original itself. They eventually decided it should stand as separately as possible."

Scott struck a handshake deal with the pair, Kosove saying "I believe he sees an opportunity to create something that’s wholly original from the first 'Blade Runner.'" A few months later, after all the legals and contracts have been sorted out, here we are. Scott is now expected to meet with writers which he and the producers will have to agree on, a hiring that could happen as early as in the next few weeks.

It's expected the earliest that shooting could start is the beginning of 2013 which would mean a 2014 cinematic release at the earliest. Scott, who recently finished editing "Prometheus," could direct one of several other films in development before jumping back into the "Blade Runner" world.

Asked about the skepticism over the announcement, Kosove says "Everything Ridley does as a filmmaker is fresh… with Ridley coming back there's a greater level of comfort. And once we have the writer, I think fans will feel even more comfortable. We want people to know that we're very serious about doing this in an artistic way. This isn't just commercial fodder."

Kosove also says don't expect Harrison Ford or his Rick Deckard character to show up - "If you're asking me will this movie have anything to do with Harrison Ford, the answer is no. This is a total reinvention, and in my mind that means doing everything fresh, including casting."[/url]