"Blade Runner" sequel script in the works

[Rico]

This is pretty awesome news!

Hampton Fancher is in talks to reunite with his Blade Runner director Ridley Scott to develop the idea for the original screenplay for the Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free, and Bud Yorkin produced follow up to the ground-breaking 1982 science fiction classic, it was announced by Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove.

The filmmakers are also revealing for the first time that the much-anticipated project is intended to be a sequel to the renowned original. The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded.

The three-time Oscar-nominated Scott and his Blade Runner collaborator Fancher originally conceived of their 1982 classic as the first in a series of films incorporating the themes and characters featured in Philip K. Dick's groundbreaking novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", from which Blade Runner was adapted. Circumstances, however, took Scott into other directions and the project never advanced.

Fancher, although a writer of fiction, was known primarily as an actor at the time Scott enlisted him to adapt the Dick novel for the screen. Fancher followed his Blade Runner success with the screenplays, The Mighty Quinn (1989) and The Minus Man (1999). He has continued to write fiction throughout his career.

Scott also will produce with Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove as well as Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO's of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.

The original film, which has been singled out as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.

State Kosove and Johnson: "It is a perfect opportunity to reunite Ridley with Hampton on this new project, one in fact inspired by their own personal collaboration, a classic of cinema if there ever was one."

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=90356

[Ensign Random]

I'm a Blade Runner fan. However, they will have to work really hard to keep it up to the standards of the original. I wonder what kind of sequel. I can't really see the same characters working- even if it's a reboot type situation. Maybe they mean it will be a shared world. The original story has quite a lot of ideas running through it so maybe they will pull some of that in.

[Ensign Random]

Also, it must have a state of the art score. I still love the Vangelis soundtrack but they would need to update it. Maybe they could get Daft Punk( I liked their work on Tron: Legacy) and some other stuff they've done. Or Hans Zimmer Inception style.

[Bromptonboy]

Tangerine Dream could do a good soundtrack.  I am skeptical of any sequel to a work like that - but will see it I am sure.

[Bryancd]

I actually think they can pull this off. Clearly the source material for Blade Runner is an amazing work of sci-fi and I doubt they can match what Dick cretaed and Scott adapted, but I think with Ridely at the helm, they can bring back the ambiance and i think there's a lot more storyu to tell about that distopian future. And I hope they keep the same gun. :)

[stansnig]

Just about to put on the forum about this, via this article, here it is:
http://www.slashfilm.com/blade-runner-officially-sequel-original-writer-hampton-fancher-board/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29

[ChrisMC]

Also, it must have a state of the art score. I still love the Vangelis soundtrack but they would need to update it. Maybe they could get Daft Punk( I liked their work on Tron: Legacy) and some other stuff they've done. Or Hans Zimmer Inception style.

I'm thinking someone like Trent Reznor, whose Social Network and Dragon Tatoo scores were exceptional.

I can't wait to see how this pans out, and if Deckard will be involved. It's so awesome that Ridley is re-discovering his seminal works.

[Rico]

Some additional news on this.  A possible female in the lead role...

Yesterday, the filmmakers said that "the much-anticipated project is intended to be a sequel to the renowned original. The filmmakers would reveal only that the new story will take place some years after the first film concluded."

Scott told the site that he "started my first meetings on the Blade Runner sequel last week. We have a very good take on it. And we'll definitely be featuring a female protagonist."

Much like Sigourney Weaver in Alien, Noomi Rapace also leads Scott's Prometheus, which opens in theaters on June 8.

Ridley Scott is next doing The Counselor, but he's also got the Getrude Bell film in the works with Angelina Jolie attached to star.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=90412

[Bryancd]

She would make a great Replicant!