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| Quote: | | EXCLUSIVE: After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film from the past. Scott has signed on to direct and produce a new installment of Blade Runner. He’ll make the film with Alcon Entertainment, producing with Alcon partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. This would be the most high profile project for Alcon since The Blind Side. They got control of the franchise earlier this year, but it's a whole different ballgame with Scott at the helm. |
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Sequel/prequel/something else? Unnecessary/necessary? Cheese? Cheese.
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my first reaction was "please, no..." but i guess i should wait and see.
i think if it were just a generic cyberpunk film, it stands a chance of being reasonably good, but attaching the Blade-Runner name to it officially is probably not a good idea...
(but lets face it, if it were Ridley Scott and Cyberpunk, the comparisons would still be made, even unofficially)
but i don't see any need for a sequel/prequel - but a spinoff could work.
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I am excited for an Alien prequel but I think Blade Runner is best left the way it is, no need to go further with it. As much as I feel Prometheus needs to be done to answer some questions (mainly the Space Jockey) in Alien I dont want Ridley Scott's twilight years being spent on sequels/prequels etc. I would much rather see something totally different as Hollywood appears to be stuck in a reboot/prequel/sequel rut at the moment.
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I'd like to see a remake, one that follows the book a little more closely. Having re-read it recently, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when watching the film again.
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Bloody Hollywood. Leave films alone. Leave their heritage alone. Come up with new ideas!!!
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| admeister wrote: | | I'd like to see a remake, one that follows the book a little more closely. Having re-read it recently, I couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when watching the film again. |
i like the book, but i have to disagree with this sentiment. a do-over of the book's plot might be doable, but it couldn't be done by Ridley Scott, and it should never have the Blade-Runner name.
i really feel like watching the ... well, i can't really say "original" when i'm thinking about the Final Cut edition, but i really feel like watching the movie again...
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As much as it may have classic-ness or be iconicly sci-fi, I don't think the first bladerunner film was that unique or incredible in any specific way, it was just a good simple cyberpunk piece, and plenty more could be done in a similar or some universe.
We get no shortage of crap from hollywood, Then once in ten years they offer to do some good scifi with a decent director and it's all just booing?
bring it on.
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| kaerlis wrote: | | plenty more could be done in a similar or some universe. |
I agree with this, but unlike books, i don't really see why it needs to be so overt.
Total Recall could be said to be a film set in the same universe, since it's also based on a PKD story (ignore the fact that the adaptation is even looser than Blade-Runner's source->film), likewise Minority Report (in a lesser fashion), but the facts that these aren't linked by name, doesn't make them any less than they are.
adding the Blade-Runner now name just seems like money-grabbing to me. if they'd made sequels in the early 80s, fine, but i think the time has passed where this couldn't be seen as such an obvious move. make a good enough film, and the Blade-Runner name isn't required - even if everyone still calls it "sequel in all but name" or "spiritual successor" - that'd be fine, but having the name for the sake of having the name.... am i being too cynical?
in other news - perhaps the Total Recall remake (iirc, with Colin Farrell and Bryan Cranston) will be more obviously tied to Blade-Runner, and PKD's universe.
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Pour the resources in to an Ubik movie plzkthx.
(Although apparently Michel Gondry is attempting such a thing, so it'll be visually magnificent at the very least)
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ya know I'm more worried about the fact that it's ridley scott returning then I am it being blade runner.
His movies of late have just been overly long over dramatic and worst of all kind of boring. He hasn't made a movie I actually enjoyed since Matchstick men almost a decade ago.
Some people should just retire. Imagine a Blade Runner movie by someone with the creative flair to pull it off done by someone who's actually in there prime instead of past it. Someone like Fincher or Proyas (who needs to start picking some better films) could do something amazing.
But Ridley Scott, eh.
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