Film newsy site Twitchfilm reports that Harrison Ford is "in early talks" for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner sequel. You might remember Blade Runner as the stunning poetic meditation on the ultimate impermanence of existence. It is a film that says "we cannot possibly know how things will turn out." Except now we will.
A reboot or prequel might have felt ill-advised, but a sequel with Ford ostensibly reprising his role as Rick Deckard is a move that feels almost inevitably disappointing and terrible. Like there are maybe a few ways that can be done right, and so very many that will inflict pain on us all. OR MAYBE IT WILL BE WONDERFUL. [Via.]
It will be terrible. First the Alien "prequel" and now this, is Ridley Scott going to do a Thelma & Louise sequel next?
@LondonLee Prometheus could actually be good, though. The teaser trailer leaves me cautiously optimistic, anyway...
@Kevin Knox Yeah, and a Jeunet and Caro helmed sequel to "Aliens" sounded great, too.
I am a little bit hopeful? But then I remember the earring and I am less hopeful. But no, no. Hopeful! Because they might make him really busted-down and messed up, and that could be amazing. (I too love the Prometheus prequel.)
Oh no. No no no.
"The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time, re-interpreting them for each new age. That DC allowed these characters to sit on a shelf for over two decades as a show of respect is salutary, but there comes a time when good characters have to re-enter the world to teach us something about ourselves in the present." J. Michael Straczynski, on the "Before Watchmen" prequel series.
Tell that to Indiana Jones.
TO BE FAIR, "this should not be allowed to exist" is a much less valid critique than "this is going to be fucking terrible."
But this is going to be fucking terrible.
@DoctorDisaster I've actually never seen the fourth Indiana Jones all the way through, but I feel that the one scene I did see, where they use a snake as a rope to help Indy escape a pit of quicksand, tells me pretty much all I need to know.
@boyofdestiny Does that mean you missed the bit with Shia and an army of monkeys swinging on vines through a jungle canopy?
How would he know? All of his memories are implanted anyway.
*raises hand* how about No. I don't want this at all. Prometheus, fine, they've been talking about addressing some of the things from Alien in another movie for years, it part of the storyline.
But this? Blade Runner was poetic, just as the author said. Don't shit on the poem. :(
The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long.
And let's keep it that way.
This is it. This is the one. This time--THIS TIME--we're going to do this right. This will be the first ill-advised sequel that turns out to be totally well-advised. We're gonna do it, people. We're people, we can do anything. And this is what we're gonna do.
Or not. Whichever.
Well, at least they haven't ruined Star Wars with a prequel.
As someone who has purchased every single re-edit of this film, let me be very clear: I WILL NOT TAKE THIS NEXT STEP WITH YOU. This is morally wrong.
Time...to die.
@Nicole Cliffe@facebook Do it for Sean.
Also, I want Ridley Scott to focus on not screwing up Haldeman's "The Forever War," because that book is extremely beloved to me and it too could go Very Wrong.
So if Deckard is a replicant I assume he will be a special model that ages into a wrinkly old man.
@LondonLee SPOILER ALERT!
@LondonLee Rachael matures into a booze addled old broad who boorishly lobs insults at random other replicants at various replicant events.
I'd like to see a film adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? with all its weirdness rather than Blade Runner merely taking inspiration from it
@frontsidebus and also DADES features a much more depressing world and ending than blade runner.
@jbsquare Yep, shit's brutal
Bring on the deep hurting. Sign on Sean Young, too.
OK, I'l say it: Blade Runner isn't as good as you think it is. (Not that I want to see a sequel either.)
@Mr. B It's still better than most other things in the genre, though.