Exactly One Year Out From Its Release, Denis Villeneuve's BLADE RUNNER Sequel Gets An Official Title

Exactly One Year Out From Its Release, Denis Villeneuve's BLADE RUNNER Sequel Gets An Official Title

Sicario director Denis Villeneuve's sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic is now exactly a year away from release, and to mark the occasion, Alcon Entertainment has announced the movie's official title...

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By MarkCassidy - Oct 06, 2016 10:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi
Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment have announced that the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece is officially titled Blade Runner 2049. They don't reveal any new story details in the press release, but we do have a production still featuring Scott, stars Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling, and director Denis Villeneuve.

The movie is set for release on October 6, 2017.

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2049 is just one year away. #BladeRunner 2049 From Alcon Entertainment. 

Blade Runner 2049 is being directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Sicario, Prisoners). Opening October 6, 2017 the movie will be distributed by Warner Bros. in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing International in all media for all overseas territories.

The sequel is set several decades after the 1982 original, and stars Ryan Gosling together with Harrison Ford, reprising his iconic role as Rick Deckard. The film is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and succeeds the initial story by Fancher and David Peoples based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
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JohnnyTBP
JohnnyTBP - 10/6/2016, 10:55 AM
FIRST AND I CANT WAIT
Yaf
Yaf - 10/6/2016, 10:59 AM
Fugee La La La
bayouboyz
bayouboyz - 10/6/2016, 10:57 AM
Now I just need to catch up on the other 2048 Blade Runner films...
RolandD
RolandD - 10/6/2016, 11:14 AM
@bayouboyz - You slayed with that one!
GhostDog
GhostDog - 10/6/2016, 11:00 AM
Desr0w
Desr0w - 10/6/2016, 11:00 AM
Neato.
BlackIceJoe
BlackIceJoe - 10/6/2016, 11:01 AM
It is crazy to think 2049 isn't long off, but I'll be dead before then.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/6/2016, 11:04 AM
That's terrible.

Sounds like a bad straight-to-video sequel from the '80s.

Is... is that actually on purpose?

Nah, if there was any purpose at all to this atrocity, they would at least release it in the year 2019, not 2017. How could anyone actually resist releasing the movie in the year that the original was set? Especially since they've left it this long without... well, without tainting a masterpiece. Let's not beat about the bush. That is the risk here, if not the inevitability.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/6/2016, 11:17 AM
@DukeAcureds

The talent behind and in-front of the camera suggests this will be one of the best movies of 2017. Take a chill pill, broseph.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/6/2016, 11:25 AM

regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/6/2016, 11:41 AM
@DukeAcureds

Have you ever seen a movie by Denis Villanueve? Do you know who Roger Deakins is? Produced by Ridley Scott. Starring the A-list talent of Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.

Yeah...sounds like a DTV movie. Give me a break.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/6/2016, 11:49 AM
@regularmovieguy - Great talent. Maybe they should all get together and do Taxi Driver: Death on the Streets next, huh?

I don't care who they put on this movie. It should not be made.

They put some fine writers and artists on Before Watchmen, too, but any true, self-respecting fan of the original would not give it the time of day.
regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 10/6/2016, 12:02 PM
@DukeAcureds

If this team decides to do Taxi Driver: Death on the Streets then I would be all for it. It would probably be incredible.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 10/6/2016, 1:02 PM
@DukeAcureds - don't go see man, the rest of us will enjoy what will likely be another masterpiece or something very close. No big deal.
Viilax
Viilax - 10/6/2016, 7:11 PM
@DukeAcureds - "Masterpiece" If any movie deserves a re-do, it's that one. The original had an interesting concept but was so goddamn boring at times. Not to mention the ending seemed a bit rushed.
DukeAcureds
DukeAcureds - 10/7/2016, 3:46 AM
@Ryguy88 - It is a big deal. Any way you cut it. Whether it's really good or really bad, whether people are excited to see it or are appalled that it is actually going ahead.

It's a big deal, a big risk and a really shocking development.

BladeRunner is an historical example of Film art.

It is not a franchise and it did not set up any form of sequel.
It was even open-ended with regards to whether or not Dekkard was a replicant.

Therefor this sequel, despite the talent attached, is unwarranted. It's sole purpose for existing is, like most Hollywood sequels, to capitalize on a proven commodity.

It may turn out to be a good movie, but none of us have seen it, so we don't know.
However we do know that this is an unnecessary Hollywood sequel to an historical masterpiece.

It's a big deal.
Ryguy88
Ryguy88 - 10/7/2016, 2:59 PM
@DukeAcureds - if the moview is great then captilizing on a proven commodity would obviously not be it's sole purpose for existing.

The Road Warrior revolutionized action movies, Fury Road came in 30 years later and did it again. I see this as being THAT type of extension to a classic.
pepe
pepe - 10/6/2016, 11:07 AM
Blade Runner: 90210
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon
PsychoticSpaceRaccoon - 10/6/2016, 11:08 AM
Good director. Good talent.

Blade Runner is one of the best sci-fi films ever made.

This sequel has big shoes to fill.
IronGenesis
IronGenesis - 10/6/2016, 11:11 AM
2049 People Who Thinks He Looks Like a Clark...BAR!

#JustCallMeJoe
THEDARKKNIGHT1939
THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - 10/6/2016, 11:19 AM
Wow, so this is the 2049th sequel? Longest saga ever.
iDontWikeIt
iDontWikeIt - 10/6/2016, 11:21 AM
Guys, take a look at this fan made video by screen rant. Pretty good.
iDontWikeIt
iDontWikeIt - 10/6/2016, 11:24 AM


LOL
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