Blade Runner, The Sequel. Or The Prequel.

Alcon Entertainment, producers of the Blind Side and The Book of Eli, own the rights to make a prequel or sequel to Blade Runner. They seemingly haven't gotten much further than that. From Entertainment Weekly:

“We have some ideas that we’re not in a position to discuss yet,” Andrew Kosove, Alcon’s co-CEO, teases to EW. “But from our point of view, the thematic core of the original movie – what does it mean to be a human being? – is even more relevant today than it was when the film came out. After all, we’re living in the industrial age of technology.” Kosove and his fellow CEO, Broderick Johnson, are partnering on the project with Bud Yorkin, one of the producers of the original film. “That picture turned out so well – it’s just been selected for preservation by the Library of Congress – that for a long time I was afraid to try to make another one,” Yorkin says. “But now seems like the perfect time. We just need to find the right writer and director.”

"New 'Blade Runner' producers talk movie prequel. Or maybe a sequel."

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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gths

The original didn’t have enough big explosions so I reckon we could put Michael Bay on the case and he’d fix that for the sequel.
Anonymous

Should not be made.

All these remakes, revisions and prequels deface and diminish the great works that they pretend to stand on.
podopolog

Before anyone gets to a sequel/prequel, we’d like to propose a true version of “Do Anroids Dream of Electric Sheep”, without all the entertainment industry ketchup and oblivion polish. Ridley Scott didn’t even read the book ! And while it’s difficult to argue it’s an entirely botched film, cause it’s undeniably quite a juicy fruiturist spectacle, it lands way off the author’s original mark !
We at the XLterrestrials Citizen Kino lab recently put it through a rigorous psychomedia analysis in Berlin during the Transmediale Fest, and have determined that Ridley tests positive as a Hollywood Replicant!
He opted for easy digestible material and mas$ive-budget main$tream appeal. And rather than posing complex questions about humanity and corporate hell, wound up giving us sexy replicants, a formulaic cop story tryst and a subtle technohype commercial! PKd’s work was fueled with serious social warning, and it still deserves a serious adaptation!
Then again, maybe people just need to read more !
- BBQbrains
  
  “Before anyone gets to a sequel/prequel, we’d like to propose a true version of “Do Anroids Dream of Electric Sheep”, without all the entertainment industry ketchup and oblivion polish. Ridley Scott didn’t even read the book ! And while it’s difficult to argue it’s an entirely botched film, cause it’s undeniably quite a juicy fruiturist spectacle, it lands way off the author’s original mark !”
  
  Thank the gods for Ridley Scott. IMO the PKD book wasn’t particularly good.
  
  If they want more Blade-Runnery material, they can always work on an adaptation of Chung Kuo. Lots of sequels already built in.
- bdsjtec
  
  Yes, there is something about PKD that can’t be replicated. I dunno what it is. The ability to combine a futuristic warning with a good storyline. The best of what hard scifi is. I do think they took the book and extended it quite well. The soundtrack for example could stand alone. Actually does stand alone. Ridley Scott’s visual presentation was stunning. The dialog was very very good – the writers did very well.
  
  Still as good as movies can be, books are just better. For example if you think Gone with the Wind was a good movie, then read the book. That movie was a great movie. One of the best. But the book was ten times better.
- Deidzoeb
  
  Good call. “Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Francis Ford Coppola. (Ha, just suggesting him because he tried to do a more accurate Dracula. But that movie sucked too. The book is great though, and fairly different from the movie.)
Daemon

“weâ€™re living in the industrial age of technology”

Please don’t let whoever said this have anything to do with the movie, should it ever actually happen.
Gloo

“We just need to find the right writer and director.â€

All I hope is that both of them will stay well hidden…
DrPretto

Hey Mr. Pescovitz, at least give me some credit, I “submiterated” this yesterday:
http://boingboing.net/submit/2011/03/blade-runner-sequel-or-prequel-in-development-now.html
podopolog

Btw, if anyone’s interested we’re trying to bring our psychomedia analysis project – CitiZen Kino – back on tour through the Land of Replicant Memories in 2011 and looking for hosts, collaborators and producers.
More info here:
http://xlterrestrials.org/plog/?p=6424
angrydroid

Please. No. Don’t.
buddy66

The best thing about the movie, IMHO, was when some studio hack(s) saw it for what it should be and added the opening voice-over, making it *Philip Marlowe In The Rain*. It was better noir than science fiction, anyway. If a sequel, take it back to the mean streets of L.A., down which a man will walk who is not himself mean.

Also, I can’t figure out how a hi-tech replicant with a shelf life of only a few years can possibly be cost-effective. The Tyrell Corporation must have made its billions doing something else.
Camp Freddie

I really think that Blade Runner doesn’t need or want a sequel or prequel.

Some films just work best on their own, with the mysteries left as mysteries. I don’t want to know how replicants were invented, I don’t want to know why Decker became a replicant-hunter.

I sure as hell don’t want some crappy 3D CGI of attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.

I mean, imagine what would happen if some idiot tried to make a sequel to the Matrix where they explained the background about why the computers want to imprison humans?
neilwalker

What does it mean to be a human being? Didn’t we have enough Lt. Commander Data episodes to answer that one?

However, if it gets made and is bad it won’t delete the original. Highlander 2 was bad, but it didn’t affect the original’s greatness. It just meant that there was another bad sequel in the world. If I was to put money on it, I’d bet it will be another Tron Legacy. It’ll look great, but leave you feeling cold inside…
Prufrock451

Boy, that picture did turn out so well. So go back to collecting $15 a year in royalties on The book of Eli and get the hell away from Blade Runner.
- robulus
  
  Firstly, well done Prufrock451 for winning the thread with comment #1.
  
  Secondly, I like how the idea of Ridley Scott having anything to do with it isn’t even floated, even though he is currenlty working on a prequel to ALIEN.
  
  Thirdly, I think it should be a sequel, showing Deckard and Rachel leaving the apartment and dropping dead 5 minutes later. Role credits.
Anonymous

as long as they have Rutger Hauer in it in some form!
bklynchris

Hey! I have a great idea! How about Philip K. Dick? …..oh wait…he’s dead.

or is it just me that thinks this un-BB worthy? Unless, it was put up here for scorn and ridicule.
Johnny Cat

“Get the hell away from Blade Runner.”

Agreed. Maybe the film world doesn’t amount to a hill of beans, but throwing origami unicorns at it won’t solve the damn problem.
- Anonymous
  
  that was my first thought too. followed by:
  
  “hey hollywood, why don’t you try and find some other gem buried in literature to make, or come up with something new, rather than endless rehashing the fucking past???”
dubzee

No.

No no no.

Don’t do that…seriously.
scifijazznik

Can we start a kickstart account to raise $5 billion dollars to give to them in exchange for not following through with this terrible idea? It’s Hollywood, so appealing to conscience or good taste is not going to work. Money is the only option.
thekinginyellow

this is all i have to say:
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1237/darthvadernoooop.jpg
delightfuldave

They should incorporate elements from Dick’s Electric Ant if they really want to deal with what it means to be human. That narrative arguably pushes it more towards elements of perception, but at it’s core it’s about the initial ambiguity surrounding the principle character’s discovery that he is not human.
StudioRobot

meh. i say throw Terry Gilliam at it. I think he could pull it off.
rrh

What would we see in a prequel? Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion? C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate?
- TooGoodToCheck
  
  rrh, I do believe you’ve hit the nail on the head.
  
  Your idea can legitimately be described as being “inspired by” the original, even technically a prequel, while at the same time not being tied down by any of the settings, characters, or themes of the original.
  
  Space Explosions are awesome, and your main characters are good looking killer robots! You’d have all of the cool violence of a war movie, without any depressing association to any real war. Can we give the replicants super powers at all? They’re already a bit superhuman, right? Make it like X-Men. . . In Space. . . At War!
  
  And it’s got the name of a respected franchise to elevate it above the standard direct-to-video release.
Anonymous

No.
Don’t #$%! with it.
Please.
Tonky

I second that PruFrock. Blade Runner is quite possibly the greatest film of all time. Visual richness, action, methodical story telling and 1 sweet boa constrictor!

Can’t see a se/prequel having anything to add to that universe.
At the very least least it will bring attention to the original.

I pray they don’t produce it all in a computer and actually build sets.
Kwolfbrooks

â€œBut from our point of view, the thematic core of the original movie â€” what does it mean to be a human being? â€” is even more relevant today than it was when the film came out. ”

Eh…? Is this guy in fourth grade, or what? Is being human really more relevant today than it was back then?

And… “Industrial Age of technology…”

Sheeeeesh!
- mntnr
  
  Actually, I do feel more human than those that were around back then, they didn’t even email or tweet, or anythin. This is a golden industrial age of technology, indeed!
Michaelchr

I just watched this again the other night and realized that according to the opening credits it takes place in 2018. It’s going to be the future soon. Someone better get moving if we’re going to have off-world colonies and flying cars in just 7 years. Not to mention very attractive killer robots.
grimc

They should get Paul WS Anderson. He did “Soldier”, and that was supposed to occur in the same universe as Blade Runner. That turned out super awesome.
Chloramphenicol

Ummm… While I could see this going *very* badly, you all do realize that there are already sequels written, correct? Wikipedia lists all of them for you, and they’re authorized and considered cannon. Sure, they weren’t written by Dick, but I’ve at least read The Edge of Human and found it to be a pretty good read.

Now casting and sets, yeah, Hollywood would find a way to screw that up. CGI is pretty and all, but I find actual locations, models, and matte paintings create a more visceral and, at least to me, enjoyable viewing experience.
- deckard68
  
  @68: Those sequel books by Jeter aren’t considered “cannon” by anyone with taste. They’re putrid.
Anonymous

I really, really hope they do this. It will make so many insufferable nerds angry, and on the road there’s a slight chance it might actually be good. Who knows?
Deidzoeb

I’ve heard “Soldier” discussed as if it was some kind of sequel or prequel. Kurt Russel and friends seem to be more like modified humans than completely manufactured replicants, but you could say they were prototypes for what would become replicants. (More realistically, it’s just a story by one of the same screenwriters of Blade Runner, with a few inside jokes about places or events from Blade Runner. Not highly recommended.)

My gut reaction is that late sequels to classic movies generally suck, and it’s sad news that anyone would bother making a sequel. (Bambi 2, anyone?) It’s like the Barf-o-rama story embedded in “The Body” by Stephen King, where Gordy wraps up his story perfectly, but his pal keeps bugging him to hear more and more details, missing the point of the first story but wanting infinite sequels.

However, in the spirit of remixing and fanfic, any idiot should be able to write sequels or prequels or slash fiction, keeping in mind that they might not live up to the original. If it turns out good, then enjoy it. If it looks like it’s going to be bad (any Disney sequels released direct to video, most sequels made more than ten years after the previous installment), then don’t go see it. Nobody’s putting a gun to your head. If you’re a diehard fan, you don’t have to consider stories to be *canonical* just because the same studio or company made the sequel. Hell, even if the sequel is by the original creators, you can ignore a rushed, poor quality sequel and not let it affect your enjoyment of the original (c.f. The Dark Knight Strikes Again).
- RedShirt77
  
  I think the best case senario here is something like 2010 as a sequel to 2001.
  It really lost the entire feel and point of the first movie, but was fine and fun. The worst case senario is the AVP Movies. Interesteing that Ridley Scott is working on an Alien Prequel.
  
  They can set another story in the same world without damaging the first film. Just don’t insist on having a Deckar in it.
Anonymous

Hell, Ridley Scott is still alive, and he did an excellent job the first time around!

Fincher might be able to pull it off. Nolan would do well. Anyone else would be a risk.
jm

Obviously, This.Must.Not.Happen.

But still, just imagine what the RIGHT director could do with an M. Night Shyamalan script and Nicholas Cage!
Naturally it will have to be in 3D.
Anonymous

Add me to the list of those who think it shouldn’t be done. The godfather went one sequel too far, let’s just nip this in the bud now.
BookGuy

Oh, come on people, it would be awesome! Just think of all the hot, go-to celebrities they could cast! It could star Seth Rogen, Russel Brand, that dead-faced chick from “Twilight,” and a brand new soundtrack composed entirely by Katy Perry! And I think Charlie Sheen might be available!

I mean, just think dsjaioethcac,,,,…

Oh, sorry. I just threw up all over the place.
mneptok

Alcorn is just threatening this to scare us.

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn’t it? That is what it means to be a slave.
Anonymous

They already made the prequel:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640459/
mraverage

I hope they don’t do either pre or se, but if they were to do one, it’s an interesting thought experiment to ask who would be the best fitted to write it – knowing that the best fitted would probably not want to tamper with perfection.

If he were alive, Robert Anton Wilson would be deep enough. Leguin has been writing books that define what it is to be human for over 40 years. Both were friends of PKD but neither would ever have written in his universe. Cory doesn’t inhabit that psychotic/psychedelic realm, he’s got his own. KSR could but i bet wouldn’t. Yes, Terry Gilliam could, and would do it well.

I hope someone can suggest a writer that i don’t know of who could pull this off – so i can read him.
Anonymous

I personally think James Cameron should direct it- He has a history of making good sequels to Ridley Scott films.
nosound

I don’t trust someone who says today that “weâ€™re living in the industrial age of technology” to make a scifi film.

At this point, it’s like someone from the 1920s saying “we’re living in the bronze age of bridgemaking.”

We’re in the information age, not the industrial. Get with it. And give bladerunner to someone who knows what they’re talking about.
- Chrs
  
  Exactly what I was thinking. The industrial age? Seriously, guys? I know being a robber baron is coming back into style, but come on.
ill lich

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. . . a crap script from Alcon Ent.
xian

You know whatâ€¦ go ahead and make another Blade Runner movie for all I care. I loved it just as much as anyone here, and I also loved – and still do – the original Star Wars trilogy. Itâ€™s not like the Lucas prequel turds made the original movies any less amazing. So whatâ€™s there to lose? If it sucks, donâ€™t go see it. If it turns out amazing, well then all the better.
fouber

Kosove: I need ya, Rid. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic.
Scott: I was quit when I come in here, Kosove, I’m twice as quit now.
teapot

Anything they make you watch in school can end up as an unpleasant memory… Blade Runner and that weird early 90′s version of Macbeth live in that category for me.

Hey… the new Tron turned out pretty good (in the eyes of those who liked the original) – Maybe they need to get that production team on board?
- robulus
  
  Dude, you really ought to find some quiet time and just sit down with the bluray of Bladerunner on a nice big screen with a nice big sound system.
  
  Because you really got the short end of the stick on this one.
Anonymous

Save that money and use it instead on reviving the Firefly franchise!
Anonymous

Please burry the idea again. A sequel will never be as good as the original and the actors are all 30 years older. The magic of the original will fade, just like in Alien. I don’t believe any director can get as much depth in it anyway. As far a a prequel is concerned I think it will also be a waste of energy. This is just for the money, right.

Think of this : Ridley Scott agreed to make a prequel on Alien. Turns out it’s developed into a whole new thing (Prometheus). Says enough, doesn’t it?
jdk998

Given the bad movie that would be a result, it would make re-watching the original all that much sweeter.
RedShirt77

“â€” that for a long time I was afraid to try to make another one,â€ Yorkin says. â€œBut now seems like the perfect time.”

I mean, fuck, they did it to Tron.

I hope that they do one, but really now is perhaps the time when its riskiest to do the film. Some moronic studio will be pushing for a Jar-jar binks Cameo, 3-D viewing, and a staring roll for that duche from the transformer movies.
Anonymous

They just released the working title: Travesty.
annapaxis

I have watched Bladerunner about six times in the last four months (I show it to students in a class on technology and society.) My god, that movie holds up. Sadly, it puts students to sleep. Not enough slam!!! bam!!! spiderman!!! I weep for the future.

That being said, I encourage any filmmaking based on the works of PKD. He was, and is, simply the best.

Valis 2012.
i_prefer_yeti

The way they speak of PKD assures me that they’ve never read any PKD.

You want to make a Dick movie? Go fucking buy up the rights to Martian Time Slip or Our Friends from Frolix 8 and try your hand at it.

What they want is a guarantee of making GOBS of money. Fuck, let’s get that Ben Affleck and j-lo Cassablanca sequel back on track while we’re at it. Or how about a remake of Citizen Kane? Some shit should be singular, dammit.

If there was a way to shut this shit down without attracting more publicity to their project, I want to sign up for it.
Bucket

I’ve got it!

Aliens vs. Predator vs. Blade Runner.

A predator ship carrying an alien queen egg crash lands in futuristic dystopian LA. Hi-jinks and hilarity ensue.

I’ll have the script banged out by the end of the afternoon. Here’s a wheelbarrow you can fill with my money.
Anonymous

I’ve seen Blade Runner probably 20 or 30 times in my life (I’m 45). I know the “basic” subtleties of the film, the neat factoids about the film that most people interested in it would know. But I just today, with this BB post, noticed something I’ve never thought about before. What’s up with the dove in Roy Batty’s hand? Where did it come from? Is it a replicant bird as well? Did he swipe it when he was over at Tyrell’s place? What’s the story on the dove?

I gots ta know…
- Michael Smith
  
  What’s up with the dove in Roy Batty’s hand? Where did it come from? Is it a replicant bird as well? Did he swipe it when he was over at Tyrell’s place? What’s the story on the dove?
  
  There were birds living in the top of JF’s building. A one point Deckard and Batty break in to the space they were living in. Batty has the bird in his hand when he climbs on to the roof and I assume he grabbed it from the same place. I think it is a metaphor for holding on to life, because he knew he had minutes to live. Then he died and let go of the bird.
  - Anonymous
    
    sure sure, i got the metaphor part. but was it a real bird? i didn’t think there were any left, hence the need for replicant animals. in jf’s bldg, was it a flock of replicant birds running around loose? flying around loose, i mean. what gives?
    - Michael Smith
      
      It was a real bird. All the replicant animals we see were directly owned by people, like the snake.
Antinous / Moderator

I re-watched Blade Runner about a year ago and confirmed that I found it kind of boring and pretentious. Which is odd because I love just about everything else that Ridley Scott’s directed.
- annapaxis
  
  You can’t be serious.
- tylerkaraszewski
  
  I agree, it’s a slow and somewhat boring movie.
  - Donald Petersen
    
    Thirded. Then again, I haven’t seen it in years. Maybe my tastes have matured enough now for me to appreciate it more.
    
    Here’s the part that irritates me, whether the guy’s talking about a sequel or prequel to Blade Runner, The Hudsucker Proxy, Citizen Kane, or Shakes the Clown:
    
    But now seems like the perfect time. We just need to find the right writer and director.
    
    Oh, is that all you need? You have no story in mind, have no idea whether it should take place before or after the last one… you just think the time is ripe to milk a few more millions from the gullible fanboys who revere your franchise?
    
    Fuck him and everybody that thinks like him.
    - Anonymous
      
      I mentally just switch off anytime a movie is referred to as a “franchise.” That word contains no creativity, only marketing.
      
      With that in mind, I’m sure they could get McG, Bruckheimer, or Bay to make this mess.
- ackpht
  
  I’ve watched many of Ridley Scott’s later films and find them technically adept, but nothing with the power and vision of Blade Runner.
  
  But that’s just my opinion, and Scott would certainly disagree. He’s been hearing people gush about Blade Runner for thirty years now- probably drives him nuts.
i_prefer_yeti

It’s the holy ghost, my friend.
Baron Karza

Yeah, but Psycho 3 was pretty good, wasn’t it? And I really liked that one part in the twelfth Halloween movie too.

Very much time to find new books to make movies from. I bet Guillermo del Toro could pull off an amazing adaptation of Gene Wolfe’s “Book of the New Sun” novels.. several movies there. Or John Varley’s “Titan”.
jayarava

sequel = a business plan produced by accountants. I note that they *don’t actually have a story yet*. It is so cynical.

Why not try this: employ some good writers to come up with a film script (But not an adaptation of a book because these are uniformly poor imitations). Turn script into a movie.

Re Scifi – why does Hollywood not realise that the best scifi stories involve neither monsters nor supernatural beings, but, um, ‘science’?
Anonymous

facebook petition against it:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-The-Blade-Runner-Sequel/186744051361263
Anonymous

Here’s the plot, the whole film takes place on the New World planet, which is beautiful and clean for the rich who can afford to live there. (this keeps continuity from the first film). Despite being replicants Decker and his mate have escaped to the New World (living longer than expected) They are hunted by 4-year old replicant soldiers. A role reversal (Decker being hunted instead of him hunting replicants) and surprise ending, Tyrel wasn’t killed only his clone was. This makes sense since Tryrel is a mega billionaire, why would he live in the trashed city of L.A.
Frank W

This thing is doomed to be a stinker already. Unless it’s given to Paul Verhoeven. He has the cynicism, the paranoia and the sincere bad taste down pat.
Crashproof

I loved that movie. Even though some bits of it are kind of slow and of course the “enhance” scene is ridiculous now — it’s not boring. And the soundtrack makes great background music.

My wife, who didn’t see it until the late 90s, fell asleep watching it and won’t rewatch it with me.

I have mixed feelings about a sequel. Mostly bad ones.
- BBQbrains
  
  ‘…and of course the “enhance” scene is ridiculous now’
  
  More human than human, more photo than photo.
Tango Charlie

Everyone here realizes that if they *did* make another Blade Runner, you wouldn’t be *forced* to watch it, right?

Nevermind pay money for it.
- benher
  
  I don’t have to pay to watch the Spanish Inquisition either, but that doesn’t make it right!
jphilby

Go for it! I want to see c-beams glitter off the Tannhauser gate! attack ships on fire in the shadow of Miranda! Taffy paying off the mortgage on the club!

Soundtrack by Reznor! Cameos by Max Headroom and HAL. Oh this will be sweet.
bdsjtec

If I was remaking Blade Runner it would be tough replacing Philip K. Dick, Vangelis and Ridley Scott and the creative chaos of the production environment and budget overruns.

And that strange dialog that seemed authentically futuristic – very short phrases – ignoring a question then immediately someone else asks a question that is also ignored.

But serious attempts at good hard science fiction are rare and always welcome.

In the seguel/prequel I would:

1) replace the director Ridley Scott with the director of the movie Serenity – Joss Whedon. Wow! That would be exciting.

2) replace Harrison Ford’s Deckard with Nathan Fillion(!) the ships captain in Serenity/Firefly.

3) replace Philip K. Dick (PKD) with Vernor Vinge. Ok, that probably wouldn’t work as Mr. Vinge probably couldn’t keep a production schedule. So again I would choose Joss Whedon with Vernor Vinge hired as a consultant to add technical depth to Joss Whedon’s good stories.

4) replace Vangelis with …? I’m stumped here. It would have to be timeless…I know! I would get Jonn Serrie (ambient electronic) and Tangerine Dream to work together on a sound track. Maybe with Joss Whedon’s help – he did some of the music on Firefly.

5) the dialog in the Serenity/Firefly series was also authentically futuristic – very short – crisp – with obvious works unspoken. For example “You best be on your merry (way)”

6) stick to Philip K. Dick’s basic story line of an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances. I would be VERY annoyed if the currently fashionable idea that Deckard-is-a-replicant were to be utilized in the story line. That would put the movie zombie stomping in the weeds in the first 45 minutes. You can’t relate. You can’t pull that story line off. PKD couldn’t pull it off and would know better than to try.

The news that Blade Runner is being revisited is very good news. I want to see more of this world. I’m not expecting it to be as good. I believe that it could *actually* be better.
2k

It could be done properly with Fancher, Scott (who should be able to reproduce Cronenweth’s sense of space) et al.

Vangelis is the only living human being who could do the music and I dont see it being possible to film the terrible prequel books. (Pris was Human, OH NOES!)

Oh yea of little faith! Pray to Tyrell-Shark that this doesn’t suck.
JhmL

It’ll never happen.
Drabula

in my delusional fantasy world I’d like to believe something good could come out of this but all I need do is think about the remake of Rollerball and I instantly go limp and switch to praying it never sees the light of day.
deckard68

As long as it is big budget and in 3D, and not some cheap, direct-to-video cash-in, there are some great stories that could be told in the Blade Runner universe. Remember the Westwood adventure game “Blade Runner”? It was very good. It can be done.
deckard68

Gaff: The Early Years, was a suggestion I saw elsewhere.
shadowfirebird

Meh. Let them make it. We don’t have to go and see it.

And if it turns out to be as bad as we think it will be, we can just wipe it from reality. Like those two Matrix sequels that NEVER EVER HAPENNED.
Brainspore

Maybe a prequel will explain why everyone in the year 2018 has ditched their smartphones and gone back to using public phone booths again.
- gellfex
  
  “Maybe a prequel will explain why everyone in the year 2018 has ditched their smartphones and gone back to using public phone booths again.”
  
  That’s an easy one:Brain tumors. It also helps explain the empty buildings.
  
  I join the general despair of any thoughtful SF that doesn’t include blasters and explosions or fantasy making it to the screen. I was pulling my hair out trying to explain to the MIL that Moon was SF while Benjamin Button was fantasy.
Hirsty

I hope it’s a prequel. I’d like to see Roy Batty as a child.
Anonymous

I think it should be animated by Bill Plympton and actually be an attempt to answer the title of the book.

Concerning the title of the movie, what exactly is a “blade runner” anyway? I don’t remember.

Hollywood movies are replicants.
dolo54

Blade Runner has been my favorite movie pretty much since it came out. At least it rivals The Big Lebowski for movies I can watch over and over and never get bored with. Saw it in the theater as a boy and loved it. Loved the director’s cut even more. And the final cut that came out a couple years ago is by far the best version. It also happens to be the best example of remastering I’ve seen, i.e. they left the film grain in and didn’t add extra explosions (George Lucas should take notes).

After seeing Blade Runner it inspired me to read the book. Now I have about 20 Philip Dick books on my shelf and more that I’ve read and given to friends.

So it’s probably no surprise that I’m not looking forward to some jackass producer making a Blade Runner prequel or sequel where “all we need is a writer and a director!”
Anonymous

From the article quote: “…the thematic core of the original movie â€” what does it mean to be a human being? â€” is even more relevant today…”

I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched it, listened to it, studied it, wrote & read academic papers on it, etc. But I thought the theme was something more like: What do you do when the question (what does it means to be human) is rendered moot and pointless? When you can’t tell the differenceâ€”are your dreams real or genetic memorexâ€”then the only question becomes: who’s asking?

By the way, instead of remakes, prequels & sequels, how about a making of William S. Burrough’s “The Blade Runner”? (i.e. The version of he who coined the term)?

Have a better one.