Ridley Scott Directing new Blade Runner film

gettothechopper · 18 Aug 2011 at 19:23

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=31821

whoaaaa

this could be so good
or so bad

wouldnt imagine Ford would be up for it

Brian8bit · 18 Aug 2011 at 19:30

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18249112

Ford's too old for it anyway. It's nearly 30 years ago he shot Blade Runner.

jp_bl_68 · 18 Aug 2011 at 19:44

Old-man Ford did his best to ruin Indie for me. Keep him away from Deckard! :mad:

Bladerunner is a classic, it doesn't need a remake/sequel/reboot. But if anyone's going to do it then I'd prefer it was someone new so they could put a different perspective on things.

Columbo · 18 Aug 2011 at 19:49

Please for the love of all that is good and pure leave it the **** alone.!

^TANK^ · 18 Aug 2011 at 19:58

Good god leave it alone.

phil675 · 18 Aug 2011 at 21:26

It might be alright, probably a CGI fest though.

Grandmaster Fap! · 18 Aug 2011 at 23:52

Is he actually directing or just producing in some form? Whats with Scott lately, first Alien now this, i thought the guy hated the idea of sequels.

Nitefly · 19 Aug 2011 at 00:02

Never understood the hype over the first one... thought it was really average to be honest. Perhaps it was more influential or original than it was interesting.

jp_bl_68 · 19 Aug 2011 at 00:08

One of the reasons I love BR is the intro. The synths, flying over the city, flames bursting into the sky, it creates a great atmosphere. Dark, ominous, futuristic. Good story, great performances.

THMRK · 19 Aug 2011 at 00:29

They are not allowed to remake it. The rights for the franchise don't allow it.

This could be good. I suspect it might a film adjacent to the original the way Prometheus is to Alien, but it's far too early to tell. No writer attached, no story, no actors attached...just Scott saying he's going to do it.

Brian8bit · 19 Aug 2011 at 03:29

Nitefly said:
Never understood the hype over the first one... thought it was really average to be honest. Perhaps it was more influential or original than it was interesting.

It came at a time when Cyberpunk was starting to take off as a genre. I think William Gibson even said he was only partly through writing Neuromancer and went to see Blade Runner and said (paraphrasing) "wtf everyone is going to think I ripped off the Blade Runner style". It was a big shift at the time in sci-fi writing with the likes of Gibson's Neuromancer and Rudy Rucker's Software books. And you had Manga's like Akira and films like Burst City coming out in the early 80s from Japan as well.

It's a genre I still love despite how short lived it was.

atpbx · 19 Aug 2011 at 06:58

I dont see the need for this.

benneh · 19 Aug 2011 at 07:06

Jesus Christ, is nothing sacred?.

Cosimo · 19 Aug 2011 at 08:54

benneh said:
Jesus Christ, is nothing sacred?.

Not in Hollywood. Why bother being originals when you can make money out of sequels and remakes.

Cybermyk · 19 Aug 2011 at 09:01

I'm hoping it's a musical

Bubo · 19 Aug 2011 at 10:28

On the other hand Edward James Olmos doesn't any different now than he did 30 years ago, he could easily do Gaff again.

w1lliam · 19 Aug 2011 at 11:40

Wasn't this based on a book? I Dream of Electric Sheep and as far as im aware it doesnt have a sequel. So im not expecting anything great from this.

THMRK · 19 Aug 2011 at 11:45

It was "based on" in the loosest sense of the word.

wyatt gates · 20 Aug 2011 at 09:57

I do not understand why they are doing a remake.
It is one of these films which was way ahead of its time and it is a timeles classic.
I saw it when it came out and as other people have said i was truly amazed by the film.
It is in my top five films

Grimley · 20 Aug 2011 at 10:56

w1lliam said:
Wasn't this based on a book?

Yep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Androids_Dream_of_Electric_Sheep?

Got a feeling in my bones that this is going to be a big FAIL & all the BR fans will turn on Ridley with a barrage of hate mail - I hate Ridley Scott FB page etc.