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Post by auntym on Jan 27, 2016 13:26:38 GMT -6
www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a41516/blade-runner-2-harrison-ford/?mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&src=nl&date=012616 Harrison Ford Will Return to Star in Blade Runner 2 A headline we never thought we'd read. By Matt Miller / www.esquire.com/author/13932/matt-miller/Jan 25, 2016 Though Blade Runner only achieved modest box office success when it was released in 1982, it has gone on to become one of the most influential science fiction films of all time. It has also led to a decades-long debate: Is Harrison Ford's main character Rick Deckard, actually one of the replicants—robots designed to look identical to humans to work in hazardous off-planet zones—that he's been charged with hunting down. The answer has been only further muddied through the various versions of the film that've been released over the years. At long last, Ridley Scott, the film's director, chimed in a few years ago to say that Deckard really was a replicant, which made it pretty unlikely that he could possibly return in a sequel. "It's not a rumor—it's happening," Scott said in an interview in 2012 about Blade Runner 2. "With Harrison Ford? I don't know yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don't know how long he can live. And that's all I'm going to say at this stage." Seems pretty cut and dry. But, now that Scott's no longer on board to direct, things have officially changed. Alcon Entertainment has announced that Ford will return for Blade Runner 2 to star alongside Ryan Gosling. Any doubts you might have at this point (and let's face it: there should be many), may be quelled somewhat knowing that it is being directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners), and the screenplay, which "takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original," was written by Hampton Fancher (co-writer of the original) and Michael Green. We'll leave you with Rutger Hauer's unbelievable "Tears in the Rain" speech from the end of the original Blade Runner: www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a41516/blade-runner-2-harrison-ford/?mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&src=nl&date=012616
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Post by auntym on Dec 19, 2016 15:01:44 GMT -6
www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a51659/blade-runner-2049-teaser-trailer/?src=nl&mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&date=090116 BLADE RUNNER 2049Don't Worry, the First Blade Runner 2049 Teaser Trailer Is Stunning
The cool coats and rainy neon L.A. are back. By Matt Miller / www.esquire.com/author/13932/matt-miller/Dec 19, 2016 It's been nearly 35 years since Blade Runner changed an entire sci-fi genre, but today we have our first look at the upcoming sequel. In the first teaser trailer for Blade Runner 2049, we see Ryan Gosling enter a building in a dusty, post-apocalyptic wasteland. Fans of La La Land will be pleased to see Gosling plays a couple keys on a piano before he encounters Harrison Ford, who has reprised his role of Rick Deckard. "I had your job once. I was good at it," Ford says before emerging pointing a gun at Gosling. As we've learned, Gosling's character will also be a blade runner—a cop charged with the task of hunting down and killing rogue replicants, which are androids built to look like humans. As the plot synopsis reads: "Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling) unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years." At shorter than two minutes, we don't see much in this teaser but, as directed by Arrival's Denis Villeneauve, these first images are certainly stunning. Along with the bleak desert location, there's a brief glimpse of the wet L.A. of the future, which has become the moody, neon urban inspiration for every sci-fi film of the past three decades. This is enough to calm any nerves of fans worried a sequel wont live up to the original, but we won't know for sure until Blade Runner 2049 is out on Oct. 6. www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a51659/blade-runner-2049-teaser-trailer/?src=nl&mag=esq&list=nl_enl_news&date=090116
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Post by auntym on May 8, 2017 13:10:10 GMT -6
BLADE RUNNER 2049
BLADE RUNNER 2049 - Official Trailer
Warner Bros. Pictures
Published on May 8, 2017
There are still pages left in this story. Watch the NEW trailer for #BladeRunner2049, in theaters October 6. -- Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years. From executive producer Ridley Scott and director Denis Villeneuve, #BladeRunner2049 stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana De Armas, MacKenzie Davis, amy Hoeks, Lennie James, Carla Juri, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto.
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Post by jcurio on May 9, 2017 11:29:25 GMT -6
1st comment:
Jared Leto has (finally) found his niche (KNEW it was only a matter of time 🙁) *********** 2nd comment:
Please, I don't think I can stand to see Harrison Ford killed off again. Seriously.
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Post by auntym on Jul 17, 2017 13:53:34 GMT -6
www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/watch-ryan-gosling-harrison-ford-in-eerie-blade-runner-2049-trailer-w492636 Watch Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford in Eerie New 'Blade Runner: 2049' TrailerBy Ryan Reed / www.rollingstone.com/contributor/ryan-reed7-17-2017 Jared Leto, Robin Wright also appear in preview of upcoming sci-fi sequelThe eerie new trailer for Blade Runner: 2049 showcases more of the characters populating the sequel to Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic. From the first official trailer to why Harrison Ford is returning to the role – what we know about this much-anticipated sequel to a sci-fi classic Blade Runner: 2049, set 30 years after the original, stars Gosling as Officer K, who unearths a dangerous secret that could crumble society. He tracks down Harrison's Ford's iconic Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who's been missing for three decades. Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) directed the film, out October 6th. The sequel also stars Ana De Armas, amy Hoeks, MacKenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James and Dave Bautista. Jared Leto delivers ominous messages as Neander Wallace, a manufacturer of replicants, the bioengineered androids featured in the first film. "Replicants are the future, but I can only make so many," Wallace intones. Later, he grumbles, "The future of the species is finally unearthed." www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/watch-ryan-gosling-harrison-ford-in-eerie-blade-runner-2049-trailer-w492636'Blade Runner 2049': Everything We Know So Far: www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/blade-runner-2049-everything-we-know-so-far-w481238
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Post by auntym on Jul 22, 2017 17:43:27 GMT -6
io9.gizmodo.com/blade-runner-2049-director-says-harrison-ford-and-ridle-1797156876?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow Blade Runner 2049 Director Says Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott Are Still Arguing About What Deckard Isby Evan Narcisse / kinja.com/evnarc7-22-2017 Depending on what version of Blade Runner you’ve seen or preferred, it’s possible to make strong arguments that main character Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a human or an artificially created Replicant himself. It’s a question fans have debated since the movie came out in 1982—and it’s a debate the star and director are still having to this day. “Harrison and Ridley are still arguing about that,” Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve said yesterday. “If you put them in the same room, they don’t agree. And they start to talk to very loud.” Villeneuve was present for one of those arguments. “I sat in the middle and went, ‘Well…’” Right now, Villeneuve is in the middle of something else, making a sequel to one of the most fiercely beloved science fiction movies of all time. At a roundtable discussion at San Diego Comic-Con 2017, he confessed that he isn’t used to talking to press while making a movie. But he’s never done a movie as big and charged as this one before. In the conversation that happened yesterday afternoon, Villeneuve talked about how he decided to sign on to Blade Runner 2049, finding an aesthetic approach that flowed from the first movie’s landmark visuals, and whether technology can help humans be better to each other On finding the confidence to make a sequel to such a beloved movie:“Three things. First of all, I had Ridley Scott’s blessing. That’s the first thing I asked once I said yes. There were some conditions. I wanted to be in front of him and looking into his eyes and saying, ‘Yes, you can do it.’ The second thing, the screenplay I felt had strong ideas in it. I’m not saying it was a perfect screenplay. I’m just saying that I understood why Ridley felt that there was potential to do a strong movie there. And the third thing was that I’d been offered a lot of big scifi movies in my life but I always felt it was dangerous to do those big movies because there’s a lot of pressure when you make those big movies. I said if I do it one day, it will be for something that is really worthy and really meaningful artistically for me. “The first [Blade Runner] movie is one of my favorite movies. I said to myself, ‘They will do it. No matter what we think, the studio will move forward and will make it.’ I don’t know if I’ll succeed but I know I will give it all my love and all my skills. I will work so hard. I didn’t want it to fall into the hands of someone that wouldn’t. I said at least I will be passionate about it and give my blood to make sure it respects the spirit of the first movie. It’s a bit arrogant; I was afraid to see a sequel to Blade Runner but I said, at least if I do it, I will have some control over it. I can blame only myself.” “The most important part of the film process is casting. You need strong actors. I’m a very different film director from Ridley Scott but it’s a thing that both of us have in common. We always aim for excellence with the actors in our casting; there’s no compromise. The casting I’ve done, one thing I’m sure of is that the performances in our movie are very strong. Very strong. I had the chance to do a massive casting around the world where I got to choose from among the best young actors. One thing I love in the screenplay, there’s a lot of strong female parts. Femininity is very important in the second movie, like it was in the first movie. So I had the pleasure to meet actors that sometimes are well known in their own countries but less known in North America like amy Oaks and Anneli Armas. Carla Jueri. Mackenzie Davis. Those young actresses are strong artists and they brought a lot to the movie. The four of them are the movie’s secret weapon.” On the decision to bring back Harrison Ford:“It was the other way around. Harrison was there before me. The birth of the project was the producers from Alcon were able to unfreeze the rights. It was honestly like a master, high-skilled negotiation to bring the rights back to life. They unfroze something that was very difficult and the first thing they did was approach Ridley, of course. They said they’d love to do with him and I think Ridley said, after 15 minutes, ‘Fly to London NOW.’ What Ridley told me was, when he did the original Blade Runner, he had the desire to follow Deckard’s and different other stories. It was a universe that was open. You have a detective in the future. The desire was there. It’s just that so much *bleep* happened with the first move that it froze there. “They went to Ridley and they went to [screenwriter] Hampton Fancher and both of them had an idea to do a sequel that excited everybody. The first thing they did once they got the idea was they phoned Harrison. At the early stage of screenwriting, they asked him because, without Harrison, there was no movie. Harrison said yes and they developed the movie. Harrison was there before me. I didn’t go to Harrison; I had to be approved by Harrison. “Once I agreed to do the screenplay, I had to meet Ridley to hear from his own voice that he wanted me to do this. And then I had to meet Harrison to be scanned by Harrison to make sure Harrison Ford approved.” On taking Blade Runner’s future into the future:[Note: I personally asked Villenueve two questions. Here’s the first: The first Blade Runner popularized a sort of future-shock vision of cyberpunk and that aesthetic imprint is all over the place now, and people are familiar with it. Can you talk about, aesthetically, some ways that you want to surprise people again?] “You’re putting your finger in the soft spot. Is it a soft spot or a painful spot? It’s a movie that’s been cut-and-paste so much through the years that influenced sci-fi and all the movies—even Star Wars movies—are influenced by Blade Runner. So how can you go back to something that was so original but became a landmark [in that way]? “It was a long process to find the keys. The keys were in the screenplay and the ideas of Hampton about how climate evolved. Climate for me was a key because [changing] climate means different kind of light. And that was something, with Roger Deakins, we explored those ideas and came back that we feel is deeply inspired by the first movie but slightly different. “Let’s say that the first movie was made by a director born in England under the rain. The second one was made by a Canadian direct that was born in snow. So the light is different. It was a lot of work to try to extend and project this universe into the future and try to find something that I hope will have some kind of freshness.” CONTINUE READING: io9.gizmodo.com/blade-runner-2049-director-says-harrison-ford-and-ridle-1797156876?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_twitter&utm_source=io9_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
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Post by paulette on Jul 30, 2017 16:58:35 GMT -6
Blade Runner didn't seem to get much attention when I saw it the first time. I was blown away by it. It perculated into my vision of the future. I "Believed" it was possibile. Now I've seen the Japanese companion robot dolls and I know that most cars are made by robot assembly lines. I know that if they "get away on us," that they will have even less mercy on us that we have on ourselves. Can't wait to see the next movie. Put it in my calendar!
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Post by jcurio on Jul 30, 2017 17:30:11 GMT -6
Same. I loved the movie!
It became a "classic" or favored, by more people MUCH later.
Was it really too weird or "sad" for people when it first came out? 😲
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Post by auntym on Sept 17, 2017 18:17:27 GMT -6
www.cnet.com/news/harrison-ford-blade-runner-star-wars-indiana-jones-han-solo-deckard/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59bef3ec04d3015204fb27a5&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter Harrison Ford talks candidly about Han Solo, Indy and DeckardThe actor tells GQ why he still thinks Rick Deckard is human, why Han Solo is finished and why he's happy to reboot every successful franchise he's done. by Bonnie Burton / www.cnet.com/profiles/bonniegrrl/September 14, 2017 One thing is certain about veteran actor Harrison Ford: He's a man of few words, but those words are worth hearing. In a GQ interview published Wednesday, Ford discusses his childhood, his acting technique, what happened to his earring and his thoughts on Carrie Fisher mentioning their on-set romance in her last memoir, which he hasn't read it. Ford also talks with some candor about playing iconic characters such as Han Solo, Rick Deckard and Indiana Jones -- all roles he played in his younger years that he's recently revisited in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," "Blade Runner: 2049" and an upcoming Indiana Jones 5 movie. On "Blade Runner"Ford still adamantly believes that his detective character Deckard is not a Replicant, even though "Blade Runner" director Ridley Scott (who serves as the producer on "Blade Runner: 2049") says otherwise. In fact, "Blade Runner: 2049" director Denis Villeneuve recounted a dinner where he watched Ford and Scott debate Deckard's humanity. "That was just fantastic," Villeneuve tells GQ. "Two of my heroes at the same table, drinking great Hungarian wine, both of them arguing about the fact that they still don't agree about if Deckard's a Replicant or a human." "I'm interested in preserving the question for the audience," Ford says in the interview. "I mean, part of the idea of whether or not he's a Replicant is that there's not a definitive answer." On Han SoloFord believes that chapter may finally be closed … unless of course, it isn't. "I'm finished with Star Wars, if Star Wars is finished with me," Ford says. On Indiana Jones 5When asked what the next Indiana Jones movie will need to be in order to have Ford fully on board, the actor replied with one word: "funded." Now that his characters in "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Blade Runner" have successfully made their comeback, here's hoping we see CIA operative Jack Ryan in another Tom Clancy novel-to-film adaptation. After all, when asked if Ford had the intention of rebooting every successful franchise he's ever done, the actor answered, "You bet your *bleep* I have." "Blade Runner: 2049" is set for release in theaters in Australia on October 5 and in the US and UK on October 6. Indiana Jones 5 is expected to hit theaters in 2020. www.cnet.com/news/harrison-ford-blade-runner-star-wars-indiana-jones-han-solo-deckard/?ftag=COS-05-10aaa0g&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_content=59bef3ec04d3015204fb27a5&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
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Post by auntym on Oct 3, 2017 15:34:02 GMT -6
Blade Runner 2049 - Final U.S. TV Trailer [HD]
TrailerTrack Published on Oct 3, 2017
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 arrives in U.S. and UK cinemas this Thursday, October 5.
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