The long overdue _Blade Runner_ thread

Daavid- I agree. If Refn sees The Incal through then that might be very close because it has a Blade Runner connection.

Interesting that the box office prediction was so off. I'm curious how many people in their teens and twenties have ever seen the original.

very weird tv spot for blade runner 2049 pic.twitter.com/DvZpLNYyAQ

— demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) October 8, 2017

demi strikes again

Man what do I have to do to see a non-Marvel sci-fi movie in the theater this year before its utter bombness takes it away

Also how did I miss that The Incal is being made into a movie?!?

It's a strong possibility but I don't think it's actually happening.

Not sure Refn could secure that kind of money.

you've got to figure timing time affects box office, too. at the very least I was not able to see it this weekend because I couldn't find the time.

Wouldn't be surprised if this Blade Runner is the last unconventional big expensive sci-fi film America makes for a long time.

86% was over 25 showing that young adults were not excited enough for this old property to show up in large numbers.

there's your problem

I say "unconventional" in a very low bar kind of way.

I had some errands to run so I took a Friday off work and went to the movie at 11am after dropping my car off to have new tires installed

Literally every other person in the theater (which, to be fair, was sparse at 11am on a friday) was a white man in his 30s/40s

I saw a fair amount of couples.

didn't the same guy literally just make Arrival, which was a hit?

Kind of don't even want to see the new one, I don't want my dope OG BR perspective expanded upon.

I was at the third showing of the day yesterday and there were seven people in the theater's biggest room.

Oh yeah, Annihilation is coming out too.

A replicant would pirate this shit

Villeneuve's also doing Dune. Hopefully that will be unconventional.

What's his long game anyway? BR2049 I can understand, but why a Dune reboot? Why not let Lynch' great flawed version and Jodorowsky's rest in peace?

(*Jodorowski's failed attempt)

and the syfy channel's series, and...

dune is going to keep being remade because -- and full disclosure, I never read past the first book -- it's a science fiction epic with the same scope as Tolkien's works, but hasn't had a popular adaptation that's definitive

we could have dealt with a world where the bakshi animation was the only hobbit we needed tbh

didn't the same guy literally just make Arrival, which was a hit?

― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, October 8, 2017

failing to follow the logic here. but fwiw this was much more enjoyable than Arrival.

It was in response to RAG suggesting this might be the last unconventional American sci Fi film in some time. I meant that call seemed premature, given Arrival, by the same guy, was just a hit, so don't write off sci Fi yet (whether or not one liked either).

It would be nice for someone to make a better movie of Dune, but I can't figure out why Neuromancer hasn't been made yet. That would be something that could be a bigger deal done right than a sequel to Blade Runner or doing Dune for the third time.

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I have bad news

Deadpool director Tim Miller's busy schedule is getting a little busier.

Miller will direct an adaptation of the 1984 sci-fi novel Neuromancer for Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Longtime X-Men producer Simon Kinberg will produce the film. A writer has not yet been set.

Miller made his directorial debut last year with Fox's Deadpool, which became an unexpected smash. He exited the sequel in October over creative differences, but has a number of other projects in the works, including an adaptation of the Daniel Suarez sci-fi novel Influx for Fox and an animated/live-action adaptation of the classic videogame character Sonic the Hedgehog for Sony.

although he's now directing the new Terminator movie so maybe this is no longer happening

it would be cool if one thing from my childhood wasn't ruined by the time i died

re: neuromancer

Neuromancer seems pretty simple, screen Johnny Mnemonic for the director and say "don't do this, any of this".

how dare u

It's like the Showgirls of sci-fi movies

if only that were true!!

Lol Showgirls is an actual masterpiece compared to Blade Runner

compared to anything

it is the only true film ever made and yet it bores me

as perfect things will

The reality:

Showgirls - 8/10
Blade runner 2049 - 6/10

Is what's boring!

i thought we were talking about johnny mnemonic being the showgirls of sci-fi movies

if that really is true then i guess i finally need to see johnny mnemonic

like immediately

speaking of long overdue

they're equally bad, but Showgirls is more eventful

30yo Keanu in a suit, tho

we were shocked to see this in a totally empty theater last night, which sucks for the production company, but ramified the ambiance of the film itself

Must be bittersweet for Sean Young to have been in her first big movie for a while but only being wanted involved as her younger self.

I liked this! I liked how it reversed the standard “am I a robot?” trope of science fiction and made it, “am I human?” (i.e., do I have a soul?)

Quite a lot of AI/Spielberg naffness in this. Hilarious enough to keep me from offing myself.

A critic I saw on Sunday had the DCP die 40 minutes from the end, and he was so, so grateful.

so I watched Cherry 2000 and chaki is right it's not *that* great, although it is def an interesting curio. The production design and mish-mash of ideas/styles are it's biggest strengths. The integratron looks great, the robot warehouse is total Ballard, the urban scenes all have clever/funny details. But the acting of the leads is godawful and Griffith is really terribly miscast, and the gender politics inherent in the premise are all glossed over in a p stupid way. Johnson and Carey's scenes are, predictably, the most appealing. Feels like it could have been really great in the hands of a better director and better leads but whatever.