BREAKING MOVIE/TV NEWS

Thursday, May 15, 2014

"Blade Runner 2"



Producers have confirmed they are reaching out to actor Harrison Ford to reprise his role of  'Rick Deckard' for the developing Warners sequel to "Blade Runner", to be produced by Sir Ridley Scott.


The new screenplay is by Hampton Fancher, co-writer of the original 1982 feature.


"We believe that Hampton Fancher and Michael Green have crafted with Ridley Scott an extraordinary sequel to one of the greatest films of all time, " said Alcon co-founders Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.


"We would be honored, and we are hopeful, that Harrison will be part of our project..."


Ford is currently co-starring in "Star Wars: Episode VII", reprising his role as 'Han Solo', but has always been keen on re-visiting his ex-cop character for "Blade Runner 2".


"I’m quite curious and excited about seeing a new script for Blade Runner'..." said Ford.


"...If it’s a good script I would be very anxious to work with Ridley Scott again, he’s a very talented and passionate filmmaker...and I think it would be very interesting to revisit the character."


As for the original film, Ford said, "I remember it with complication, but I'm not there to generate nostalgic moments, I'm there to do a job of work. I quite understand that everybody has an ambition when they come and do a film, and everyone's ambition may not be focused on the same thing. I truly admire Ridley as a man and as a director, and I would be very happy to engage with him again in the further telling of this story."


Also expected to appear in the new film is Edward James Olmos as 'Gaff'.


"It is happening", Scott confirmed about the "Blade Runner" sequel. "With Harrison Ford? I don't know yet...he was a 'Nexus-6' so we don't know how long he can live..."


Describing the opening scene of "Blade Runner 2"Scott said, "...there’ll be a vast farmland where there are no hedges or anything in sight, and it’s flat like the plains of...Kansas, where you can see for miles. And it’s dirt, but it’s being raked.  On the horizon is a combine harvester which is futuristic with klieg lights, ‘cause it’s dawn. 


"The harvester is as big as six houses. In the foreground is a small white clapboard hut with a porch as if it was from 'Grapes of Wrath'. From the right comes a car, coming in about six feet off the ground being chased by a dog. And that’s the end of it, I’m not gonna tell you anything else..."


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