The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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unfortunately there are approximately ten thousand deviant art accounts with better blade runner 2 concept art

Jared Leto has rounded out cast of Alcon’s Blade Runner sequel.

The pic stars Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.

Directed by Sicario helmer Denis Villeneuve, the film also stars Robin Wright and Mackenzie Davis. Cinematographer Roger Deakins will reunite with Villeneuve on the project.

The sequel, set several decades after the original, is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and succeeds the initial story by Fancher and David Peoples, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Plot details are still under wraps.

The movie hits theaters on Oct. 6, 2017.

Warner Bros. is handling domestic distribution, while Sony is taking on international distribution.

Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to Blade Runner in 2011 from the late producer Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic sci-fi thriller. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will produce along with Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Bud Yorkin will receive a producer credit.

Ridley Scott will serve as executive producer. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEOs of Thunderbird Films, will also executive produce along with Bill Carraro.

Leto, who is repped by CAA and Untitled Entertainment, was most recently seen as the Joker in Suicide Squad.

Bladerunerrer

Yeah, this is the time to get that annoying bag of nuts into a film I'm already dubious about.

dude is 44. crazy

i'm just going to pretend this dumb idea doesnt exist

So is this new blade runner going to be sick and twisted?

should choose to be one or the other imo

leto's far more offensive as a celebrity than as an actor. there's something fakey and otherworldly about him. i can imagine he might be good in this as a sketchball or a villain or a character type. as long as he checks his method bullshit at the con-apt port, he could be a gain for this movie. plus, denis villeneuve is great and the trailer for the arrival (so far) looks great, so y'all just take a perky pat or w/e.

I'm going to watch Arrival, Villeneuve's SF film that's coming out soon, before I draw any conclusions on whether I think BR2: Electricant Boogaloo will be a shitpile

although I will also be sad if that one ends up being a bad adaptation of Ted Chiang's story

remember how great rutger hauer was playing roy batty as a sad, complicated person who was flamboyant and threatening and paternal and painfaully aware of his own mortality?

i have an awful feeling leto has been cast in a similar role and will make lots of GREAT BIG GIANT ACTING CHOICES which are terribly embarrassing for everyone involved

no he's Pris

heh i can see that

he'd be just as terrible as pris tbf

for sure

maybe he's the detective that first investigates the replicants but gets nearly killed, and he's visited in the hospital. but only in outtakes that fail to make the movie, and he's all bandanged up and can only mumble

*fingers crossed*

fwiw Leto's androgynous look kind of makes him perfect to play an android.

what makes him androgynous

is it the pretty eyes

he's a beautiful human being

who unfortunately is a terrible actor and seems real dumb

I think I missed that jared little pill won an oscar haha

I don't hold out much hope of this movie being much good anyway, but if Leto's character is the 'genetic clone of Roy Batty' it's going to suck.

Genetic clone of nora batty

Villenueve is a shit director of entire movies but has an eye for a scene. This will be terrible but beautiful, fitting handover from ridley.

Electric Runneroo

http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/24/johann-johannsson-to-score-blade-runner-sequel/

Blade Runner 2049

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kinda startling that technology doesn't appear to have advanced in the intervening 30 years

mm tasty. altho HF is growlin just like in The Force Awakens. not much he can do about that i guess.

Wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the narrative. Some sort of widespread technological regression in the wake of Tyrrell Corp's demise

why does deckard live in a giant library that says good luck in korean on the front

Also why isn't he dead, unless...UNLESS THE ORIGINAL STUDIO CUT IS THE REAL ONE?!

this is the real deckard, the replicant in the original movie is based on him

(i rly hope this is not the case btw)

The increasingly Haggard Harrison seems well-cast in this one. I'm guessing they're _really_ going to lean into the "it's not the years; it's the mileage" bit.

The shot of Ryan walking thru the orange desert really makes me want Mercerism in the movie, somewhere. Get that thematically relevant empathy Box going.

i appreciate how faithful they ~seem~ to have remained to the visual (and possibly editorial, not quite enough info to be sure) aesthetic of the original, right down to an apparent nu-Bradbury Building. also appreciate the reprise of the vangelis theme tho i know it's a tease...

lol @ exec producer ridley scott saving a buck by repurposing some leftover props from prometheus

Well he did the same the first time around so... it's like poetry. It rhymes.

(Which props btw?)

giant head i imagine

i thought that the sound was the best thing about the trailer

Oh it was a head! I was watching on a phone through blurry awake-at-4am eyes and thought it was a weird spaceship maybe.

some stuff about the music here: http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1701-Winter-2017/Collaborators-Villeneuve-Johannsson.aspx

i regret playing this youtube

redemial offtone voiceover, fury road desert, prometheus head ruins, staircase from untouchables (it is isn't it?), bane outfit

Villenueve making hay

“Blade Runner: 2049” director Denis Villeneuve looks ready to jump into another classic fixture from the sci-fi world.

Sources tell Variety that Villeneuve is in early talks to direct Legendary’s “Dune” reboot for the company. Legendary has not commented on the news.

Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, Legendary closed a deal with the Frank Herbert estate for the rights his iconic novel, granting the production entity not only rights to film but also TV-based projects on the sci-fi property.

dune is the only bit of all this old tat that is TOTALLY worth remaking but not if they're going to fuck it up which they will

geopolitics, fascism, jihadism, environmentalism , silicon valley techno libertarianism, immigrant & ethnic food cultures, white ppl & appropriation, foodies, it's got the lot

Villeneuve has no sense of humor which should disqualify him from the Dune job, but nobody understands anything so