The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

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

wonder if they'll use at least some of the Vangelis tunes/cues, 'the love theme', 'Blues' at least.

Disappointed that Vangelis won't be scoring this, I wonder if they even asked him?

Anyway, since Ford has now come back as as old Indiana Jones, old Han Solo, and old Rick Deckard, is there any other iconic role he could reprise? Jack Ryan comes back from retirement? Dr. Richard Kimble gets framed for another murder? Dr. Richard Walker gets lost in Paris again?

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Re:Regarding Henry

Old Bob Falfa hunkered down in his broken down house in Modesto. The kids haven't spoken to him in years. A rusty Malibu SS in the driveway with a Trump sticker on it.

Villeneuve has no sense of humor

Have you seen Enemy? Some of it's pretty funny.

I should check it out, I guess. I suspect any humorous stuff is because Jake is incorrigible.

wonder what happened to this guy

http://m.kitv.com/image/view/-/89408/highRes/3/-/maxh/630/maxw/1200/-/12cpcilz/-/Harrison-Ford-in--Apocalypse-Now--jpg.jpg

Villeneuve confirmed for Dune. deserves its own thread?

Yup.

isn't there more than one scifi person available?

It used to be law that every Hollywood SF movie starred either Keanu Reeves or Tom Cruise, so expect one of them to be cast in it

Hmmmm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4

...hmmmm.

As a commenter said elsewhere, "hoping the action beats they’re emphasizing are more for the trailer than indicative of the movie." But this feels far too stagy and forced regardless, the self-consciousness really is evident -- probably inevitable in comparison to the almost accidental formulation of the original film, but even so.

Also there's something too...crisp, I suppose the word is, about what's here. Visually, the literal grain of the images.

Johannsson's music does the self-evident Vangelis riff/'cover' at the start and then his own thing and again hm.

Doubling down on the Atari logos.

i'm hyped for this, primarily based on Sicario and just the overall look of what i'm seeing here.

i think the original BR was a bit stagy in places too, but that was a plus for me. For that particular film.

Ford looks properly older and more paranoid, rather than merely exhausted.

even if the plot flops I'm hoping for some atmosphere

All I'll say is that it's 100% perfect that Bautista is in this and I hope he makes all the money in the world off of being in genre franchises.

yeah, I'm just hoping for something that captures the same kind of atmosphere as the the original. Basically just good set and sound design and interesting characters. Plot is secondary.

This trailer hasn't really convinced me, but I'm still hopeful.

That's basically what villenueve does, so those are my expectations too (thin to meaningless plot and thick, crispy ambient tension like this pork belly I had in Taiwan)

a bunch of stupid callbacks + shiny but generic action sequences = about what you would expect ie, crap

If it's the director/composer duo who did Arrival, and it is, I think it will deliver good atmosphere.

but other than raking in gobs of cash, this movie is 100% unnecessary.

Also there's something too...crisp, I suppose the word is, about what's here. Visually, the literal grain of the images.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, May 8, 2017 12:50 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark

this feels like it's set in the AI universe than the blade runner universe

If Deckard dies in this, then Indiana will have to die in 2020 in order to complete the trifecta.

All I'll say is that it's 100% perfect that Bautista is in this and I hope he makes all the money in the world off of being in genre franchises.

And this I fully agree with.

doesn't look ~moody~ or atmospheric enough to be even halfway decent. vangelis soundtrack was also a big part of why the first one worked and this seems like it will be... not that. (did we learn nothing from the cosmos revival??)

trailer doesn't reveal anything even resembling a plot but can't say i'm too excited based on what's shown

jared leto looking like animated slime and making replicants out of animated slime afaict

kinda wish there were new replicants instead of pris leon and, uh, the acrobatic one knockoffs

wait, isn't Pris the acrobatic one?

sorry rachael

https://i.imgur.com/08igC2L.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pCNlVrY.jpg

basic pleasure model, which used to be a sci-fi euphemism for sex robot but is now an anagram of gwyneth paltrow's instagram

so the blade runner replicants don't have a built-in shut-off date like the normal ones huh

on one hand, I kind of miss the old trailer style of the day when you didn't have to give the SHIT IS GOING DOWN sound effects and portentous looks & dialogue

on the other, there are some really pretty set pieces here

https://i.imgur.com/Gyacliw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/VXFWofV.jpg

hey I didn't say they were _all_ good

IMO the scene from the trading outpost in rogue one got the 'blade runner aesthetic in a 2017 movie' right

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LORtuZ0ISF4

otm

basic pleasure model, which used to be a sci-fi euphemism for sex robot but is now an anagram of gwyneth paltrow's instagram

A+

mh and I agree, again

the storyline is pretty obvious from the trailer but as above, not why I watch movies starring this star, or directed by this director; if they do the respectful thing and give away the "twist" in the first act, I'll award some extra credit

if they save it for the climax I will hit this button which shuts down all the gosling and villenueve series between here and half the distance to the sun

irretrievably

SPOILIDAD:

{I hear Gosling is *actually a replicant*)