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Jared Leto Boards The BLADE RUNNER Sequel

Warner Bros. may not be off the hook when it comes to the negative critical reception of their DCEU releases, including director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad, even with its latest global box office milestone of over $500 million dollars. Either way though, it hasn’t put a dent in co-star Jared Leto’s career, even as news of the eccentric actor’s on-set behavior continues to circulate. Thus, his next venture will now be next to Sicario helmer Denis Villeneuve for the upcoming sci-fi sequel to director Ridley Scott’s 1982 neo-noir fantasy thriller, Blade Runner from Alcon Entertainment. Alcon provided their latest announcement below for Leto’s addition which finalizes casting ahead of its theatrical release next October. Academy Award winner Jared Leto (Dallas Buyers Club) is set to join the previously announced cast of Alcon Entertainment’s BLADE RUNNER sequel which includes Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Carla […]

BLADE RUNNER Sequel Adds Dave Bautista

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Development on director Denis Villeneuve’s forthcoming Blade Runner sequel is slowly taking shape, and much to the delight of folks fond of the 1982 sci-fi noir, as well as Villeneuve’s own 2015 action hit, Sicario. Having seen both, I can honestly share in the favoring opinions of those who feel Villenueve is an exquisite fit for the kind of concentrated and immersive telling that occurs, as exhibited in the first film, and will likely make actor Harrison Ford’s own return to form even more ceremonial. For this, we get a great looking cast that now adds Kickboxer: Vengeance co-star Dave Bautista, who has done impressively for himself in front of a camera with a script. His role currently remains undetailed while said only to be that of an important supporting one next to Ford as well as Ryan Gosling and Robin Wright. Alcon Entertainment provides more in their latest announcement […]

BLADE RUNNER 2 Gets A Release Date!

Lee B. Golden III

Not having seen director Denis Villeneuve’s crime epic, Sicario at the time, I didn’t really know what to expect from his take on the forthcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi noir, Blade Runner with Villenueve in the chair. That said, I actually got to see Sicario last month on VOD, and the hype is definitely there with an immersive story and script, and performances that hit all the right notes telling me virtually everything I needed to know about the kind of quality film you can expect with Villeneuve at the helm. Thus, if you haven’t seen Sicario, do check it out as it will give you some much needed perspective on how Villeneuve’s formula may be applied to the milleu that may be established in a Blade Runner sequel. That film is now set for a January 12, 2018 with actor Harrison Ford reprising his role from the […]

Ryan Gosling Up To Star In BLADE RUNNER 2

Lee B. Golden III

I’m sure that actor Ryan Gosling talked retirement at one point, but whatever. He’s up for a role in Guillermo Del Toro’s upcoming fantasy flick, The Haunted Mansion, and he’s now up for a role in director Denis Villeneuve‘s forthcoming production of the long-awaited sci-fi sequel, Blade Runner 2 from Alcon Entertainment. The new script is exepected to take place several decades after the end of the first film. Actor Harrison Ford will be returning to the role of future detective, Rick Deckard, who, in the first film, takes on killer humanoid android “replicants” whilst coping with his own feelings for one which believes itself to be human. Details on Gosling‘s role are not yet made clear, while Ridley Scott, who directed the first film which earned its accolades through cult fandom and Congressional recognition among its other laurels, is executive producing with a script by returning scribes Hampton Fancher, […]

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Harrison Ford To Return In BLADE RUNNER Sequel With Denis Villeneuve In Talks To Direct

Lee B. Golden III

It was back in May of last year that actor Harrison Ford was tapped to return to the role of futuristic detective Rick Deckhard in the 1982 sci-fi action noir, Blade Runner. This week, with Alcon Entertainment now taking the reigns to help move the new film forward and long after all the hopes that Ford would return, the word from Deadline is that Ford is officially returning to the role with Prisoners helmer Denis Villeneuve is also now in talks to direct after just recently wrapping his own new crime pic, Sicaro. Written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, the first film is set in November in the year 2019, with Ford in the role of semi-retired LAPD detective Rick Deckhard, who, in the course of being pulled back to duty as a “blade runner” to hunt down and “retire” rogue humanoid beings called “replicants” following a bloody mutiny […]