New BLADE RUNNER film directed by Ridley Scott
We heard about Alcon Entertainment acquiring the rights to the Blade Runner property, and their
unwillingness to divulge what they were going to do with it, back in March. But bringing on original director Ridley Scott for a follow-on film is a rather large surprise that makes this newsworthy. But. This is such a spectacularly bad idea that I care not to elaborate on it much further. I will say this: Even with Scott's ability to gather a committee of top shelf craftsmen to come together for whatever the final product will be - Sequel, Prequel, or Reboot - it is no longer 1983, and Scott has not put out a really good genre film in a long, long time. Perhaps they should have gone the Alien-Reboot-to-Prometheus route and just called this something else.
Deadline has the press release on this one. You can have your say in the comments section (I'll get you started: If we are going to give this property to an aging director, lets kick it towards Paul Verhoeven, who you just know would do something interesting with it.)
Deadline has the press release on this one. You can have your say in the comments section (I'll get you started: If we are going to give this property to an aging director, lets kick it towards Paul Verhoeven, who you just know would do something interesting with it.)
Around the Internet:
