Alcon Entertainment, the producer/financier teaming with director Ridley Scott to bring us a Blade Runner spin-off, have adamantly denied that the original movie's star Harrison Ford has any connection at all to the new movie..
From Deadline..
“It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner,” Kosove told me. “To be clear, what we are trying to do with ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story, figure out the direction we’re going to take the movie and find a writer to work on it. The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment.”
Apparently Alcon head honcho Andrew Kosove contacted the site saying he
"couldn't sit by as the unsubstantiated report spread like wildfire all over the world". The original
story (reported by
Twitchfilm) claimed that Ford was in early negotiations to reprise the role of Rick Deckard in, what was assumed to be based on this evidence, a sequel to the Sci-fi classic. But now, according to Kosove, this new movie will be more in the vein of Scott's
Prometheus, in other words only loosely connected to the original, or set in the same universe. But is there ANY chance Ford could be back?
“It’s like asking if we’re going to make the sky red or blue, there has been no discussion about it. What Ridley does in Prometheus is a good template for what we’re trying to do. He created something that has some association to the original Alien, but lives on its own as a standalone movie.” Asked point blank if Ford could resurface, Kosove said: “In advance of knowing what we’re going to do, I supposed you could say yes, he could. But I think it is quite unlikely.”
Ah well, it would have been nice for ol Deckard to make a cameo at least. But it still MAY happen I guess, just not based on this evidence.
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