Harrison Ford On The Possibility Of A New Blade Runner Movie

Harrison Ford On The Possibility Of A New Blade Runner Movie

Blade Runner, the sci-fi cult classic is reportedly receiving the prequel treatment. Find out what Harrison Ford thinks about this idea.

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By MarkJulian - Aug 05, 2011 05:08 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Source: Collider

Blade Runner


While on a press tour to promote Cowboys & Aliens [click here to listen to my review of that movie], Harrison Ford had the following to say about the reported prequel to Blade Runner in development at Alcorn Entertainment.

If they go into it with the ambition and some very good idea of how to bring something new to it, maybe it’ll be successful.....The ambition every time that I’ve been involved in a sequel of a film or a movie that had a number of iterations, I always felt that we were responsible for bringing something new to the characters and to the experience of the audience. If they go into it with the ambition and some very good idea of how to bring something new to it, maybe it’ll be successful.


Surprisingly, it seems that Ford is not totally against this idea. Do you think a prequel to Blade Runner could work?



Blade Runner


Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.


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PartyHard
PartyHard - 8/5/2011, 5:21 AM
This is one movie I really hope they don't mess with.
marvel72
marvel72 - 8/5/2011, 5:23 AM
i'd only support this movie if harrison ford & ridley scott return.
xizorkatarn
xizorkatarn - 8/5/2011, 5:57 AM
Is it too soon to start a "Nathan Fillion as Deckard" petition?
nordberg
nordberg - 8/5/2011, 6:06 AM
More like Blade Walker, with a colostomy bag.
VictorHugo
VictorHugo - 8/5/2011, 6:11 AM
I have nothing against prequels or sequels or revamps, what i dread is the lazy "remake", complete with the "reimagining" for modern audiences things.

Blade Runner takes place in 2019, the prequel should take place in..2012, when Los Angeles is overrun with androids and flying cars.
VictorHugo
VictorHugo - 8/5/2011, 6:17 AM
the edit button was rebooted. :(

Hey, anything to drag VANGELIS out of the Olympus, i wanna hear his music!
DR3D
DR3D - 8/5/2011, 6:28 AM
It is unnecessary to reboot or make a prequel to it, but I say the same about the movie "The Thing"
ZombieOverEasy
ZombieOverEasy - 8/5/2011, 6:34 AM
I'd like to see a revisiting of the Blade Runner world. I don't know about including Decker though. Why not do a story involving other characters in the same world? Also it needs Ridley Scott involved.
cole33
cole33 - 8/5/2011, 6:41 AM
I love the idea, if as Ford mentions, they do it with the kind of integrity and ambition of making a great sci-fi movie.

It's been a long time since we've had an ambitious sci-fi flick in the scope of Blade Runner. good ones anyway.
VictorHugo
VictorHugo - 8/5/2011, 7:13 AM
Nomis: Me too, I had the Blade Runner soundtrack in vinyl, and then years later in CD. Vangelis music is out of this world!

I also listened to "1492" for years, divine assault of music.
TheGlove
TheGlove - 8/5/2011, 8:24 AM
Why Bother? who needs some shitty sequel/Prequel to this classic.
Z25306
Z25306 - 8/5/2011, 8:26 AM
nailbiter111 I am going to be laughing about Harrison Ford and PMS all day.
nuck82
nuck82 - 8/5/2011, 8:49 AM
sad to say i have never seen this movie, but i think ill watch it this weekend on netflix streaming
Fogs
Fogs - 8/5/2011, 8:54 AM
I'd rather have a prequel or something from the same universe than a reboot.

ex: Prometheus vs the new Total Recall
MatchesMalone1989
MatchesMalone1989 - 8/5/2011, 9:03 AM
Only if they let Danger do the soundtrack I will watch a prequel or reboot.
dragonJP
dragonJP - 8/5/2011, 9:15 AM
Like the idea of Nathan Fillion in the Blade Runner UNIVERSE, but don't know about him portraying Deckard or it being a reboot. That's a tough call, reboot vs. prequel vs. sequel... maybe a sequel set even further into the future, with Fillion as a new Blade Runner on a case with connections to the first film?
quickdraw1021
quickdraw1021 - 8/5/2011, 9:59 AM
This movie was wayyyyy ahead of it's time.Without Ridley Scott it'll be shit.
BillyBatson1000
BillyBatson1000 - 8/5/2011, 12:26 PM
Please - do NOT TOUCH this film! It will only be made to screw money out of its (fanatical) fanbase. I know it will stink up the screen with the current standard of cinematic writing. And visually it will be another compendium of good/to crappy CG images dependent upon who they contact out the work to - ie: the lowest bidder. Sean Young has proved herself to be a total nutter (witness her attempt to get the role of Catwoman in Batman Returns), and Ford hasn't put his heart into a role in decades - Indy 4 sucked *ss, and was only made for money - what 'new' thing did Ford bring to that? I must have missed something. Also, if they are replicants, why would they have aged like humans? Why not colorize Citizen Kane instead? Or remake Some Like it Hot with Paris Hilton and Ben Afflec?
HelaGood
HelaGood - 8/5/2011, 3:35 PM
he is so old now...
MatchesMalone1989
MatchesMalone1989 - 8/5/2011, 3:58 PM


Imagine the movie starting with this....
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