'Blade Runner' Writer to Re-Team with Director Ridley Scott on Sequel

[Poll_Blind]

[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-bottom: none; border-radius: 0.3846em 0.3846em 0em 0em; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]'Blade Runner' Writer to Re-Team with Director Ridley Scott on Sequel[div class="excerpt" style="border: 1px solid #bfbfbf; border-top: none; border-radius: 0em 0em 0.3846em 0.3846em; background-color: #f4f4f4; box-shadow: 2px 2px 6px #bfbfbf;"]Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher is in talks to pen an idea for an untitled sequel to the classic sci-fi film for director Ridley Scott and studio Alcon Entertainment.

Alcon and Scott are mum on plot details but they confirm that the story will be set “some years after the first film concluded,” according to a statement released Thursday.

Blade Runner, which hit theaters in 1982 starring Harrison Ford, was an adaptation of the Phillip K. Dick story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Fancher shared screenplay credit with David Peoples.

A bit more at the link.

In the same way that Scott is dipping back into the Alien mythos, I feel a return to the Blade Runner universe might be caused by skittish Hollywood, obsessed with "sure thing" investments. Which means you get a shitload of retreads. I mean, fuck, do we really need another (pick your favorite franchise) reboot?

I'm interested in seeing Prometheus (Scott's newest project, out soon) but after seeing a lot of material about it...I'm not that impressed.

PB

[VocalProgressive]

1. Smells like narrative junk food in the making.

I have to ask, what is there left to tell in this fictional universe that you couldn't tell in a million others?

[Goblinmonger]

2. I agree.

That film ends pretty clearly. Hell, they even went so far as to make it so that Deckart was a replicant so we all know he is going to die pretty shortly.

A sequel is only going to bastardize an otherwise good film.