Ridley Scott Ready To Direct New Version Of Seminal Sci-Fi Film 'Blade Runner'

[Dowly]

EXCLUSIVE: After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film
Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that
advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film. Scott has
signed on to direct and produce a new installment of Blade Runner.

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/ridl...-blade-runner/


First new "Alien" flick, now new Blade Runner? Awesome.

[Torplexed]

So good to see Ridley Scott returning to science fiction after an almost thirty year absence. I've heard he might also be working on a film adaptation of the Hugo Award winning Philip Dick novel, Man in the High Castle.

I suppose if he times it right the new Blade Runner could be coming out in almost the same year the original film was set in--2019.

[kiwi_2005]

First time I watched Blade runner renting out a VHS tape back in the day I thought it was awesome 20yrs later it show here on tv so thought be good to see it again, and it sucked I actually fell asleep watching it.

Looking forward to the new bladerunner though.

[Sailor Steve]

I saw it in the theater and didn't like it then. A couple of Philip K. Dick novels have been made into movies, and they have nothing to do with the books.

I did like Daryl Hannah's death scene.

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I saw it in the theater and didn't like it then. A couple of Philip K. Dick novels have been made into movies, and they have nothing to do with the books.

I remember having to pull my jaw off the floor with that opening shot of 2019 Los Angeles. It really worked for me on the wide screen. I was hooked from then although Harrison Ford's narration in the original release just didn't work well. At the time I had never heard of Philip K. Dick.

I did like Daryl Hannah's death scene.

Replicant retirement is usually pretty dramatic.

[Skybird]

Blade Runner bases on Philip K. Dicks novel "Do Andriods Dream of Electric Sheep", and the movie surpasses the novel in all regards, I think. I also think the novel is a good one but not one of the best by Dick. However, the other Dick novels and stories turned into movies, usually stayed above the quality of the films.

I do not understand what Scott tries to show there when redoing Blade Runner. The movie still speaks for itself right the way as it is - a highly influential benchmark, and a classic second to none in its segment. Not to mention that there already have been five versions/cuts of the movie now.

Scott is old, and his time is running out. I wonder why he does not focus - and if he ever will have the time left - on what he claimed to be a heart'S business for him - turning Haldeman's famous SciFi novel "The Forever War" into a movie, which he said years ago were a desire for him since he was a young man. He has bought the rights years ago, a screen play was started also several years ago - and now it is rotting in a drawer of his desk?

And as much as I like most movies by Scott, he also did some terribly bad ones (Hannibal, GI Jane), and Robin Hood lately was simply - boring, and hopelessly misled.

Get back to serious work, Ridley. Get Forever War done, before your time has run out - you are already 74 now. This is the one movie I wait more for than any more incarnations of Alien, Blade Runner, Protheus-Alien clones, or whatever. If there is one director who can do this complex storyline, than it is you - and you do not turn younger, you know.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Torplexed

I was hooked from then although Harrison Ford's narration in the original release just didn't work well.

That wa sintentionally done this way by Ford. Niether Ford nor Scott wanted that narration, or the happy end, but the company said American audience were too dumb to understand the story without the narration, and American audience would insist that there had to be a happy end, so they copied in a sequence from material that was left from Kubrick's "Shining" (the landscape flight at the end), and Ford did the narration as bad and demotivated as he could in the hope that it would be so terrible that they would cut it out again. Scott and Ford never wanted it with that narration.

In German it worked slightly better, due to the very well-matching German speaker for Harrison Ford. But still I think it was not needed to be done.

[Rockstar]

I liked the movie with the Ford narration, until I saw the directors cut which was I thought was much better. But that ain't saying much as I think 'Eegah' with Richard Kiel is Oscar material too.

[Feuer Frei!]

When I read:

reach out to Harrison Ford

I laughed really really hard. If he is in it, after being 'touched' by the producers, I'll boycott it like the Black Plague.
He is a joke as actor. Hence why I didn't watch Indiana Jones, or anything else for that matter with him in it.
If they go with someone else I may watch it.

[KptnLt Eric Karle]

Hmmmmm...not sure how I feel about this. I adore Blade Runner, it's right up there on the top of my favourite movies. Loved the original theatre release but prefered the Director's cut without the voice-over. As Skybird said Scott has made some amazing films but several duds as well and I worry that he is tampering with a film that is very close to perfection

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by KptnLt Eric Karle

(...) and I worry that he is tampering with a film that is very close to perfection

My thoughts exactly!

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

When I read:



I laughed really really hard. If he is in it, after being 'touched' by the producers, I'll boycott it like the Black Plague.
He is a joke as actor. Hence why I didn't watch Indiana Jones, or anything else for that matter with him in it.
If they go with someone else I may watch it.

Don't worry, it will not happen. Spokesman said that while he cannot talk for Scott, if being asked himself (this spokesman), he would say No to whether or not they would approach Ford.

Ford agrees on your assessment of his acting skills, btw, having said repeatedly that he never saw himself as a great actor, and wonders why he has made a career like his in the business. He also says he thinks it is only because people simply like him and the figures he plays. I like to see Ford very much, but also never claimed he is a great actor. But he is ideal for the figures he usually plays and calls to live. He is more a type than an actor. And when the perosn playing a role matches the role, than I do not care wehther that is due to acting skill, or matching typology - it simply matches nevertheless. That'S true for Han Solo. For Indy Jones. And I think also for Rick Deckard.

It'S not rare with "actorsd" to be like this, at least in the movie business. Sean Connery also is not really an acting actor, imo, but he has charisma and it is just enough for him to be seen in the scene, and immediately he dominates it, by his mere presence. Acting has little to do with it, in a technical understanding. Seen that way, Connery is an actor whpo simply does not need to act at all. If he could if he would need, I just don'T know, and do not care.

I also like Ford'S grounded attittude on things in a business where he has cult star stus and earns millions. In a world of hysterics and narcissistics and wannabe-stars and three fourth insanes, he has shown sympathetic calmness and groundedness.

Can one say that: groundedness?

[Torplexed]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Can one say that: groundedness?

Yes. It's certainly no worse than some of the egregious excesses our politicians over here take with the English language everyday.

I think everything you mentioned about Harrison Ford goes double for Arnold Schwarzenegger. A great actor he isn't, but a certain charisma and sheer physical presence he does have.

[Growler]

I still think that is one of the singularly defining moments in modern cinema, perhaps even moreso since Hauer condensed the original screenplay dialog for that scene into what's there now.

[Osmium Steele]

What's next? George Romero rebooting Night of the Living Dead?

No, no no.

This Fright Night reboot that starts today is another one. They need to stop remaking movies that were near perfection when released.
(Although Colin Farrel as Jerry Dandrige will be wicked)

When is the Gone With the Wind reboot coming?

Has the gaming industry stolen all of the good script writers? Nobody in Hollywood has an original idea anymore.

[/RANT]