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...
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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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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