Awesome! First Prometheus and now this!
Ridley Scott to Direct New Blade Runner
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The thought of a Blade Runner prequel, sequel, sidequel, whatever does very little for me despite the fact that I think the first film is perfect and leaves me wanting more. However, with Ridley Scott on board, I'm... curious.
I will never understand this line of thinking. Ghostbusters 2 was a pretty weak rehash of the original movie, but it's not like it went back in time and somehow made the first Ghostbusters suck.
If we can't get Vangelis back to score...let's get Bear McCreary.
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I suppose we'll have to wait and see how Prometheus turns out the grasp how this sidequel (?) thing is supposed to work but I'm having trouble seeing the point of setting something in the same universe if the new project cuts all character and stylistic ties with the original film.
I don't mind Ford/Deckard not being involved as that character's story is done and I think the video game did a damn good job of mining PKD's novel to tell a parallel story in the world Scott put up on screen...so it's certainly possible.
I don't mind Ford/Deckard not being involved as that character's story is done and I think the video game did a damn good job of mining PKD's novel to tell a parallel story in the world Scott put up on screen...so it's certainly possible.
I haven't read them myself, but I've heard they're bad. The good news is they can generally be found cheap in used book stores, so if you do try one, it won't set you back too badly.
To quote Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford said:
This should be a new thing. Instead of reboots and sequels, let's just tell new stories in existing universes! I'm sure there are lots of scifi universes out there with a lot of untapped potential.
I know. I'm kind of hoping it's a new trend. If we can't create entirely new universes, let's expand the old ones!
I sense a couple of Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter... sidequels?
I can only comment in the first one, The Edge of Human, as that is the only one I've read. I picked it up as soon as I saw it way back when, and eagerly waited for the second one. However, it never came to the local bookstore, and being it was before the Internet I had assumed the others were never published.
Anyway, the book was very average. About what you'd expect from a BR sequel if it were written by a fan told explicitly that he cannot deviate too much from the formula of the first film. It brings back characters from the film, such as Holden and, brings up the question of whether Deckard is a replicant or not, and throws in the original Roy Batty and Tyrell's niece to screw with Deckard's head.
I remember being sickened by the author's insistence that Deckard is soooooo much in loooooove with Rachel (who is cryogenically frozen all of the novel). I mean, I know there was a connection between the two, but they really didn't know each others long enough to be in love! It's not as if Deckard is a hot, teenage vampire or something!
The second book is about Deckard making a movie based on the events in the first film. It is probably as bad as that idea sounds.
Those books were by K W Jeter, IIRC.
His original fiction is pretty good, and apparently he was a friend of Philip K Dick, so he must have seemed like the obvious choice to write those books.
But I've heard bad things about all of his tie-in novels. I read one of his DS9 books, and it was pretty mediocre.
His original fiction is pretty good, and apparently he was a friend of Philip K Dick, so he must have seemed like the obvious choice to write those books.
But I've heard bad things about all of his tie-in novels. I read one of his DS9 books, and it was pretty mediocre.
There's plenty of money in Forever War/Forever Peace. Both novels are practically ready-made for the Hollywood approach, Forever Peace moreso but ironically Forever War has the more marketable name.
Did you and I read the same book?
The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman? A science-fiction allegory for Vietnam, and the culture shock experienced by returning Vietnam veterans? A novel with some of the most un-cinematic SF battle scenes ever written? A novel in which everyone in the world is eventually gay?
The Forever War is a great book, and might make a great TV miniseries. But I seriously doubt it could be adapted into a successful feature film.
So the shitty stop-motion animation was always there in the first one? Well, there goes my theory.
(Even Ivan Reitman admits in the commentary that the scene when Sigourney Weaver opens up her fridge and finds Zuul played better when it had a "scene missing" title card rather than the final effect)
Speaking of the Jeter sequels, I highly doubt this film will have anything to do with those.
Well.... fine then!
Well.... fine then! I'm glad!
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