Which is funny since the new trailer has him making it sound like he can't make enough to keep up with the demand for them.
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Which is funny since the new trailer has him making it sound like he can't make enough to keep up with the demand for them.
Based on the second trailer, I think that the plot may turn around natural offspring from replicants and humans (or even replicants and replicants, should Deckard turn out to be that - Villeneuve said that characters may doubt themselves).
Wallace (is that his name?) says that "he" (presumably Deckard) has the key - after he said Android are the future but he can only make so many. I'm guessing that Rachel and Deckard were able to have offspring and lots of different people are interested in him for that. This may also be the thing that isn't allowed to become public knowledge, as one faction apparently sees it.
Wallace (is that his name?) says that "he" (presumably Deckard) has the key - after he said Android are the future but he can only make so many. I'm guessing that Rachel and Deckard were able to have offspring and lots of different people are interested in him for that. This may also be the thing that isn't allowed to become public knowledge, as one faction apparently sees it.
^That is an interesting idea, and a direction I could see them going.
Funko has revealed their BR2049 merchandise. Some of these names I've never seen mentioned before.
Funko has revealed their BR2049 merchandise. Some of these names I've never seen mentioned before.
I wonder what Philip K. Dick would think of Dorbz and POP! figures. He'd probably equate them to Perky Pat and her pre-fash layouts from The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch.
For all the reproducing replicants theory (one I agree with...Rachael being the first) I highly recommend the Armitage III animes, which are one of those highly influenced by BR ones that Japan put out in the late eighties and nineties (see also BubbleGum Crisis, AD Police, and their variants....but I think Armitage III is gonna turn out to be a big influence. Probably combined with a ton of replicants, possibly everyone a replicant apart from Deckard, following the big history wipe they mention on the website.) and is actually very good, especially its story...I recommend the OAV version, rather than the one where they draft in Kiefer Sutherland and Elizabeth Berkeley to redub. Polymatrix is alright, but not as great.
I always thought the 4-year lifespan was silly. Why go to all the effort of producing something as sophisticated and valuable as a Nexus 6 and then waste them after only 4 years? As a business model it makes no sense. But then they were all prototypes, so it would not be surprising if they ditched the model quickly.
One possible reason is that those models were dangerous for their creators/owners. Maybe the point was to quickly produce them if needed (war), but after the war is over it's best if die out quickly afterwards.
I just assumed that the replicants were designed with short lifespans so that they wouldn't pose a danger to human society by trying to revolt and take over.
They actually say in the dialogue of "Blade Runner" that the 4-year lifespan was a fail-safe to avoid the replicants from developing their own versions of emotional responses.
Warners just released the first of three short prequels to Blade Runner 2049. The first, 2036: Nexus Dawn, was directed by Luke Scott.
Okay... So there was some kind of catastrophic "Blackout" (it sounds like it should be capitalized), replicants were outlawed (perhaps in a separate event), Earth is dying, and Jared Leto is a replicant-maker who's incredibly, incredibly pretentious. It's kind of interesting that at least one or two of the panelists object to the idea of making replicants an obedient slave class and object to seeing Wallace's replicant harm himself (although that woman seemed to get off on it). Weren't they created to be a short-lived slave race in the first place? Did the events of the original film change attitudes?
I wish they'd shown credits at the end. I recognized Benedict Wong and Leto, but not the other actors, and I'd like to know who wrote it.
I wish they'd shown credits at the end. I recognized Benedict Wong and Leto, but not the other actors, and I'd like to know who wrote it.
Curious short, although not really essential (not that that matters). I wonder if any of these characters (other than Wallace, obviously) will appear in the film.
Yeah, the Nexus-6 had built-in four-year lifespans as fail safes to control the Replicants.
The white guy sitting next to Wong is Ned Dennehy, who I recognized from Peaky Blinders, among other things. I don't know the others but the two playing humans do look familiar.
Is Benedict Wong in BR2049? Is Luke Scott any relation to Ridley?
Could there have been some kind of Replicant uprising? It seemed like something happened since the first movie to turn people against Replicants even more that they were.
Jared Leto's Neander Wallace is definitely creepy.
Could there have been some kind of Replicant uprising? It seemed like something happened since the first movie to turn people against Replicants even more that they were.
Jared Leto's Neander Wallace is definitely creepy.
Neither he nor Ned Dennehy is in IMDb's cast list for the film at the moment, but it doesn't seem like a complete list.
I dunno if I'd say "creepy" so much as "affected and pretentious." As with Leto's Joker, it seems he's trying way too hard to be weird and creepy and not really pulling it off. All I get when he performs is a sense of an actor putting on a showy performance, rather than a sense of a convincing character.
I would never trust IMDb for future projects anyways so that's not much proof. Plus they don't have this short listed yet.
Hmm. It misses a few points...no doubt the original Tyrell models were also designed to obey...until they didn't anymore (having developed their own emotional response...without primary or secondary socialisation, as mentioned in the book when discussing the flattening of effect.) so new dude is just reinventing the wheel...and replicants were always prohibited on earth. They worked in the colonies.
Also...the air was too clean in that short xD. Not enough smoke.
Am still leaning to reproduction in replicants being a part of this story. Colonies need a population, cleaning a planet needs a lot of labour...and you can only make so many.
Still looking forward to this film very much...more so having seen the photo of Rachael in the TV spot, and the apparently explicit reference to Deckard being on the run and hunted with her...not because he's a replicant (I still don't buy that as anything more than marketing and a revision made in Ridleys mind after the fact. It makes zero narrative sense, and all the clues, aren't. One may as well surmise Roy had precognition abilities because of reusing shots from later in the film.)
People weren't against replicants, the laws were, because they had a tendency to go violent. It's in the opening crawl. It looks like the blackout wiped so many records that 'immigration' of replicants became harder to detect...if you don't know how many 'people' you have, who they are etc, how do you notice when some new 'people' show up?
There will be a lot of replicants on earth. Possibly...dun dun dun...everyone. Artificial people to replace a dying species, same as birds, owls....
This is supposition mind you.
New TV spot:
Everyone seems to be hunting for Deckard.
Everyone seems to be hunting for Deckard.