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Blade Runner 2?!

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http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/09/29/exclusive-eagle-eye-co-writers-working-on-blade-runner-2/

It's not often I invoke the "Please don't rape my childhood and release a craptastic prequel/sequel/remake" clause, but this would be one of those times.

There's no studio involvement (yet) and this is the work of one writer, but Blade Runner has to be near the top of my list of films that don't need a remake or sequel considering we've already seen a dozen variations of the original.
 
Sounds like it's just the pipe dream of one of the screenwriters. It'll probably never get off the ground at all. I don't think there's a need to have a fit at this point.
 
Seems unnecessary. Blade Runner is my favorite film of all time, but I'm not excited to get in line for a sequel. Haven't bothered with the K.W. Jeter books, either. The video game was fun, a lot of fun, but that's about as far as I'll go with follow-ups to the original film.
 
I've never understood this viewpoint. If they make a sequel and it sucks, do you have to go see it? Is someone forcing you to purchase the DVD? Will they be taking the original off the shelves? Will the simple knowledge that there is an inferior sequel somehow diminish the quality of the original(s) in your own mind?

And what if *gasp* it's actually good?

I think you should have stuck with your original instinct and not invoked said clause. :)
 
Sheep said:
Blade Runner has to be near the top of my list of films that don't need a remake or sequel considering we've already seen a dozen variations of the original.
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The Kurt Russell film Soldier isn't a sequel, exactly, but it's set in the Blade Runner universe.

I've read K.W. Jeter's first two sequel novels, but I never had the third imported from the UK, and now it's nigh impossible to find. I wasn't that impressed with Edge of Human, but Replicant Night was pretty decent.
 
FordSVT said:
I've never understood this viewpoint. If they make a sequel and it sucks, do you have to go see it? Is someone forcing you to purchase the DVD? Will they be taking the original off the shelves? Will the simple knowledge that there is an inferior sequel somehow diminish the quality of the original(s) in your own mind?

And what if *gasp* it's actually good?

I think you should have stuck with your original instinct and not invoked said clause. :)
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Although I'm not a huge Blade Runner fanatic, I do understand this viewpoint. And frankly, there's no justifiable reason to make a sequel to a film that wasn't meant to have one other than to keep producing movies in an industry that's completely out of original ideas.
 
Samurai8472 said:
Blade Walking slower than normal due to pain in the legs and the kingdom of Centrum and Boneva
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Man, the Harrison Ford is Old jokes were hilarious with Indy 4. They're gonna be even better with Blade Runner 2!

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go dust off my LOL.
 
Hirogen Alpha said:
The video game was fun, a lot of fun, but that's about as far as I'll go with follow-ups to the original film.
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I'd love to get my hands on the game. I've only ever seen screenshots, unfortunately.

I'm not crazy about a sequel myself (as others have said, it seems unnecessary) but I'll just wait and see.
What I'd really be interested in would be another game on XBOX 360 or PS3. It would be amazing to venture the world of Blade Runner on state-of-the-art gaming hardware.
 
I've got an idea for a Blade Runner game: it would be cool if it revolved around Roy Batty's violent offscreen adventures from the movie, a 3rd person action adventure with RPG elements.

It would start on the Off World Colonies with Roy Batty's day to day routine of being a combat unit, then he meets up with the other Replicant characters and soon after hijacks a passanger craft, where they use it to go to Earth and do an initial infiltration of the Tyrell Corp. Pyramids. We can see what happened to the unaccouted Replicant, while we can also see much more of Roy Batty using Sebastian to get into Dr. Eldon Tyrell's penthouse and how Batty could escape from such a gigantic complex.

It could be action gameplay along the lines of the Metal Gear Solid games and the enemies Roy Batty faces are Off World soldiers, LAPD officers, and Tyrell Corp. guards.

All the locations from the movie can be faithfully recreated, while we can explore them in much more depth (what is the LAPD's hangar like, what goes on behind the stalls for the Pet Market, what is the LA transit system like, does the city go as far into the ground as it does into the sky, why is there seemingly unspoilt wilderness not so far away, what the hell is going on inside those huge Tyrell Pyramids?)
 
Well, a direct "sequel" ("Deckard hunts more Replicants" or "Someone retires Rachel and Deckard goes to kill the Runner who did it") is probably not a good idea, but the universe is certainly fascinating and some more exploring it might yield intersting results.

Allyn Gibson said:
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The Kurt Russell film Soldier isn't a sequel, exactly, but it's set in the Blade Runner universe.
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I didn't knew that, but that is the direction i'm thinking about.
 
^That's not completely "official". David Peoples co-wrote the script for Blade Runner and also wrote the original script for Soldier before Paul W.S. Anderson rewrote large chunks of it. Peoples considers it what he calls a "sidequel" to Blade Runner.

Since Peoples was not 100% responsible for either Blade Runner (he was essentially a middle man between Ridley Scott and Hampton Fancher) nor Soldier (as mentioned above, his script was not the one finally used) he can't really claim that they are linked.
 
^Yeah, but there's a few tiny details in solider that ties them together, enough to make it easily acceptable to most. Soldier wasn't a great film, but it was decent.
 
I don't think this is going to happen, especially if it's just writers speculating without a script or studio backing. I'm sure writers are always developing projects like this "on the side" but never see them get made. I love "Blade Runner" and consider it one of my top five movies of all time, but I'm not in a particular rush to see a sequel, nor have I ever felt one was needed.
 
TedShatner10 said:
I've got an idea for a Blade Runner game: it would be cool if it revolved around Roy Batty's violent offscreen adventures from the movie, a 3rd person action adventure with RPG elements.

It would start on the Off World Colonies with Roy Batty's day to day routine of being a combat unit, then he meets up with the other Replicant characters and soon after hijacks a passanger craft, where they use it to go to Earth and do an initial infiltration of the Tyrell Corp. Pyramids. We can see what happened to the unaccouted Replicant, while we can also see much more of Roy Batty using Sebastian to get into Dr. Eldon Tyrell's penthouse and how Batty could escape from such a gigantic complex.

It could be action gameplay along the lines of the Metal Gear Solid games and the enemies Roy Batty faces are Off World soldiers, LAPD officers, and Tyrell Corp. guards.

All the locations from the movie can be faithfully recreated, while we can explore them in much more depth (what is the LAPD's hangar like, what goes on behind the stalls for the Pet Market, what is the LA transit system like, does the city go as far into the ground as it does into the sky, why is there seemingly unspoilt wilderness not so far away, what the hell is going on inside those huge Tyrell Pyramids?)
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I'm not quite sure how well the Batty idea would work. To get me wrong, I like a lot about the idea, and having the 'bad' guy as the one you're playing can work very well in a game. However, I think the fact that we know he's going to die no matter how hard you try as a player wouldn't make it very rewarding in the final analysis, I think. It could be quite frustrating to have to go through the entire game only to HAVE to die.

I think it might be a good idea to go with a completely different story and characters that exist in the same universe. That gives game developers more freedom and means that the realization of characters Blade Runner fans really love won't run the risk of being disappointing.
However, maybe they could be integrated in some way e.g. by having them pop up in some way during the story.
 
I'm more inclined to think of Total Recall 2070 as an appropriate sequel.

On the other hand, given that such a movie would not come out before 2010, how do you justify the fact that the Blade Runner "near future" is so over the top. I suppose you could argue that things reall go to hell in the subsequent 9 years (and LA developers lose their mind and start building massive arcologies).
 
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