Blade Runner II - Unicorns Revenge

[JOE SOAP]

Rick Deckard: Nexus O.A.P.?



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[Jared Katooie]

More worthless trash polluting my senses. Those responsible should be liquidated.




I'm not crazy about this Blade Runner sequel either.

[JOE SOAP]

Especially when the main reasons Blade Runner is still admired, regardless of its pretensions, is because it's hand-built FX and world-building still look real despite the rise of less-solid looking CGI.

Scott of course misses the point; I can't imagine them going back to practical FX with massive city-scapes built entirely of acid-etched brass and multiple 70mm passes of real rain & smoke etc. for the sequel.

[Goosegash]

Did anyone ever read those Blade Runner novels that were direct sequels to the film, written by some writer buddy of Philip K Dick? Very odd, with some good ideas mixed in with some terrible ones. I think in the second one Roy returns as a talking briefcase.

[JOE SOAP]

If Blade Runner II is to be successful to justify the budget it will be afforded, you can guarantee it won't have the low-key sombreness and glacial pace of the original, and will probably have a lot more story and action. In other words it will not be the type of film the original is, a film that has an emptiness Scott, I believe, is not entirely at ease with despite his attempt at injecting intrigue and plot post-facto by  retrofitting Deckark as a replicant.

[Goosegash]

Yeah, there's no way Scott will be allowed the same kind of indulgence as he was during the first film, which I believe went seriously over time and budget. So much so that a bunch of stuff they'd intended to film just had to be abandoned when the studio shut down production(Including an intriguing scene where Roy finds the body of the real Eldon Tyrell in a glass coffin, meaning the one he killed was just another replicant.) I suspect that era of film-making is sadly in the past.

[JOE SOAP]

I think indulging Scott is always a bad idea.

[JOE SOAP]

Not to say of course that Blade Runner II can't be a good and quite possibly better film than the original at least narratively.

[fonky]

The original film created so many other films about the subject of human/android life it's become staple for most SF films and what not. BladerunnerII could only be an anticlimax, it won't break any new ground like the first one did. 

[TordelBack]

It's a fucking stupid idea, and no good will come of it.  Not even a sweet-looking Darwyn Cooke cover.

[JOE SOAP]

If Ford gets on-board for this, I'm thinking he'll be playing either an aging Deckard -the so-called replicant- or the older original human Deckard the replicant is based on, whether he's a Tyrell operative or a cop or whatever.

[Anderson's Shame]

Blade Runner 2 already exists on film. Its called Soldier starring Kurt Russell.

It's a modern day classic.

[JOE SOAP]

That's a sidequel.

[Beaky Smoochies]

That's a sidequel.

Or rather, that's a not very good film, they were hocking that script to just about every director in filmdom throughout the 1980's and 1990's - even the once-mighty John Carpenter turned it down (and he went on to do the atrocious Escape From L.A., which tells you everything right there!) - until Paul Anderson picked it up, and made it another of his frequent magnum opuses ... although, in saying that, Kurt Russell certainly had a Dredd-like quality to him (of course he has, he's Snake Plissken!), he maybe would've been a better pick to play ol' stoney face in the 1995 mo- DANG IT, there I go again with that bloody movie, does anyone have a remedy for flushing a particularly bad film out of your system, 'cause that one is still givin' me grief after some 17 bloody years, oh DNA Films or somebody, hurry up with the Dredd trailer, PLEASE...

[Jared Katooie]

Isn't it creepy to think that some day, in the not-too-distant future, there will be a terrible sequel/prequel/remake for every wonderful film that has ever existed?

Total Recall, Robocop, Blade Runner, Terminator, Planet of the Apes, The Thing, Aliens, Predator, Clash of the Titans, Nightmare on Elm Street, Dawn of the Dead....

Ugh.