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Paging Deckard: Ridley Scott To Helm New Version Of BLADE RUNNER

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  1. basso

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    http://www.geekweek.com/2011/08/ridley-scott-to-helm-new-version-of-blade-runner.html


    MARISA STOTTER | Aug 18 2011, 10:08 AM
    Ridley Scott is set to produce and direct a new BLADE RUNNER film, Deadline reports.

    It is unclear whether this movie will be a prequel or sequel to Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic, or even if Harrison Ford will be involved. What we do know comes from an official press release sent out today:

    Three-time Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott is set to helm a follow up to his own ground-breaking 1982 science fiction classic “Blade Runner” for Warner Bros-based financing and production company Alcon Entertainment (“The Blind Side,” “The Book of Eli”).

    Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove will produce with Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, along with Ridley Scott. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.

    The filmmakers have not yet revealed whether the theatrical project will be a prequel or sequel to the renowned original.

    Alcon and Yorkin recently announced that they are partnering to produce “Blade Runner” theatrical sequels and prequels, in addition to all television and interactive productions.

    The original film, which has been singled out as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.

    State Kosove and Johnson: “It would be a gross understatement to say that we are elated Ridley Scott will shepherd this iconic story into a new, exciting direction. We are huge fans of Ridley’s and of the original ‘Blade Runner.’ This is once in a lifetime project for us.”

    Scott is represented by David Wirtschafter at WME and David Nochinson at Ziffren Brittenham.

    Released by Warner Bros. almost 30 years ago, “Blade Runner” was adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples from Philip K. Dick’s groundbreaking novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and directed by Scott following his landmark “Alien.” The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction). Following the filming of “Blade Runner,” the first of Philip K. Dick’s works to be adapted into a film, many other of Dick’s works were likewise adapted, including “Total Recall,” “A Scanner Darkly,” “Minority Report,” “Paycheck,” and the recent “The Adjustment Bureau,” among others.
     
    #1 basso, Aug 18, 2011
  2. GRENDEL

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    Heard about that earlier, could turn into something Prometheus which he's currently working on that started out as a prequel to Alien but has turned into more a sister piece.

    Set in the same general world but not a straight up sequel or prequel.
     
    #2 GRENDEL, Aug 18, 2011
  3. percicles

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    This is what happens when directors keep making movies after 60. Very few can sustain their early success and go back to the well. Only the well is dry.

    Tarantino said he's retiring at 60. Smart man.
     
    #3 percicles, Aug 18, 2011
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    Please tell me Harry Ford is on board...


    Grab "Hobo With A Shotgun" as well... Tears in the rain baby, tears in the rain...
     
    #4 RudyTBag, Aug 18, 2011
  5. Xerobull

    Xerobull You son of a b!tch! I'm in!

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    My favorite living director.

    As for Ford returning....do Replicants age?
     
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  6. Bandwagoner

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    he wasn't a replicant
     
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  7. basso

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    it was an ad lib by rutger hauer.

    <iframe width="640" height="510" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ZTzA_xesrL8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
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    Are you sure? Ridley Scott has said recently that he thought Ford's charcter was in fact a replicant.
     
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    Waiting for Deckard's words on this.
     
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    the movie is different to the book. i think i read an interview where rutger hauer didn't like the idea of deckard being a replicant in the script.
     
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    In the directors cut he implied he was a replicant.

    Harrison Ford is too old. They need to recast the movie imo.
     
    #11 The Real Shady, Aug 18, 2011
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    A Blade Runner movie that is not undergirded by a Phillip K. Dick novel is going to be a piece of crap. You didn't think it was because of Ridley Scott that the first one was good, did you?
     
    #12 JuanValdez, Aug 18, 2011
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    Terrible news. I can't think of any way this could turn out well. Some things are better left untouched. Leave the perfection of the milieu created by Philip K. Dick via Ridley Scott alone.
     
    #15 Deckard, Aug 18, 2011
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    don't be a fuddy duddy Deck; it'll be fun!
     
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    ****, let him re-do Alien, too!
     
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  18. The Real Shady

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    I heard Jar-Jar is going to be cast as the new replicant.
     
    #18 The Real Shady, Aug 18, 2011
  19. B-Bob

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    Wow. I didn't realize I'd ever tried to rep the Real Shady until I was just told I have to spread it around some. Hmph.

    Deckard's chosen image is priceless and perfect. Will be painful to watch this world jump the shark, even if the shark is a masterpiece of bio-engineering.
     
    #19 B-Bob, Aug 18, 2011
  20. percicles

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    So now his brother wants to remake "The Wild Bunch." The F-cking Wild Bunch! Sam Peckinpah was 10X a better director on a bad day hoped up on coke, wiskey and whores than Tony Scott is on a good day.

     
    #20 percicles, Aug 18, 2011
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