The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

although I will also be sad if that one ends up being a bad adaptation of Ted Chiang's story

remember how great rutger hauer was playing roy batty as a sad, complicated person who was flamboyant and threatening and paternal and painfaully aware of his own mortality?

i have an awful feeling leto has been cast in a similar role and will make lots of GREAT BIG GIANT ACTING CHOICES which are terribly embarrassing for everyone involved

no he's Pris

heh i can see that

he'd be just as terrible as pris tbf

for sure

maybe he's the detective that first investigates the replicants but gets nearly killed, and he's visited in the hospital. but only in outtakes that fail to make the movie, and he's all bandanged up and can only mumble

*fingers crossed*

fwiw Leto's androgynous look kind of makes him perfect to play an android.

what makes him androgynous

is it the pretty eyes

he's a beautiful human being

who unfortunately is a terrible actor and seems real dumb

I think I missed that jared little pill won an oscar haha

I don't hold out much hope of this movie being much good anyway, but if Leto's character is the 'genetic clone of Roy Batty' it's going to suck.

Genetic clone of nora batty

Villenueve is a shit director of entire movies but has an eye for a scene. This will be terrible but beautiful, fitting handover from ridley.

Electric Runneroo

http://www.factmag.com/2016/08/24/johann-johannsson-to-score-blade-runner-sequel/

Blade Runner 2049

http://variety.com/2016/film/news/blade-runner-sequel-title-blade-runner-2049-1201880213/

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7wnC3q2iiHo/hqdefault.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ee/Robotron_flyer.png

http://torrentking.eu/covers/movies/22/27/0102227.jpg

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/gilmoregirls2099.jpg

http://2static1.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Transformer+rise+of+unicorn+_9baeb8248da9a483d52142eac8e71313.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDscTTE-P-k

one for tealandorange.xls

kinda startling that technology doesn't appear to have advanced in the intervening 30 years

mm tasty. altho HF is growlin just like in The Force Awakens. not much he can do about that i guess.

Wouldn't be surprised if that's part of the narrative. Some sort of widespread technological regression in the wake of Tyrrell Corp's demise

why does deckard live in a giant library that says good luck in korean on the front

Also why isn't he dead, unless...UNLESS THE ORIGINAL STUDIO CUT IS THE REAL ONE?!

this is the real deckard, the replicant in the original movie is based on him

(i rly hope this is not the case btw)

The increasingly Haggard Harrison seems well-cast in this one. I'm guessing they're _really_ going to lean into the "it's not the years; it's the mileage" bit.

The shot of Ryan walking thru the orange desert really makes me want Mercerism in the movie, somewhere. Get that thematically relevant empathy Box going.

i appreciate how faithful they ~seem~ to have remained to the visual (and possibly editorial, not quite enough info to be sure) aesthetic of the original, right down to an apparent nu-Bradbury Building. also appreciate the reprise of the vangelis theme tho i know it's a tease...

lol @ exec producer ridley scott saving a buck by repurposing some leftover props from prometheus

Well he did the same the first time around so... it's like poetry. It rhymes.

(Which props btw?)

giant head i imagine

i thought that the sound was the best thing about the trailer

Oh it was a head! I was watching on a phone through blurry awake-at-4am eyes and thought it was a weird spaceship maybe.

some stuff about the music here: http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1701-Winter-2017/Collaborators-Villeneuve-Johannsson.aspx

i regret playing this youtube

redemial offtone voiceover, fury road desert, prometheus head ruins, staircase from untouchables (it is isn't it?), bane outfit

Villenueve making hay

“Blade Runner: 2049” director Denis Villeneuve looks ready to jump into another classic fixture from the sci-fi world.

Sources tell Variety that Villeneuve is in early talks to direct Legendary’s “Dune” reboot for the company. Legendary has not commented on the news.

Prior to the Thanksgiving holiday, Legendary closed a deal with the Frank Herbert estate for the rights his iconic novel, granting the production entity not only rights to film but also TV-based projects on the sci-fi property.

dune is the only bit of all this old tat that is TOTALLY worth remaking but not if they're going to fuck it up which they will

geopolitics, fascism, jihadism, environmentalism , silicon valley techno libertarianism, immigrant & ethnic food cultures, white ppl & appropriation, foodies, it's got the lot

Villeneuve has no sense of humor which should disqualify him from the Dune job, but nobody understands anything so

wonder if they'll use at least some of the Vangelis tunes/cues, 'the love theme', 'Blues' at least.

Disappointed that Vangelis won't be scoring this, I wonder if they even asked him?

Anyway, since Ford has now come back as as old Indiana Jones, old Han Solo, and old Rick Deckard, is there any other iconic role he could reprise? Jack Ryan comes back from retirement? Dr. Richard Kimble gets framed for another murder? Dr. Richard Walker gets lost in Paris again?

'Another Conversation'

Re:Regarding Henry

Old Bob Falfa hunkered down in his broken down house in Modesto. The kids haven't spoken to him in years. A rusty Malibu SS in the driveway with a Trump sticker on it.

Villeneuve has no sense of humor

Have you seen Enemy? Some of it's pretty funny.

I should check it out, I guess. I suspect any humorous stuff is because Jake is incorrigible.

wonder what happened to this guy

http://m.kitv.com/image/view/-/89408/highRes/3/-/maxh/630/maxw/1200/-/12cpcilz/-/Harrison-Ford-in--Apocalypse-Now--jpg.jpg

Villeneuve confirmed for Dune. deserves its own thread?