Yesterday, we reached the beginning of Blade Runner's timeline in our reality. Although Ridley Scott’s iconic movie is set in 2019, Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard is tasked with “retiring” Leon Kowalski - a “replicant” with a creation date of 10 April, 2017.
And this year we'll see Ford reprise his role as Deckard in Blade Runner 2049.
Set three decades after the original Blade Runner film, this newly-released trailer opens with Ford's growling voiceover repeating Deckard's famous lines: "A replicant is like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, they're not my problem." The scene then shifts to a rich yolk-yellow landscape in which Ryan Gosling, as Officer K, edges close to a giant replicant head on the ground, before encountering an armed and aged Deckard in a derelict house. The trailer may not tell us a whole lot about the film, but everything from Ryan Gosling's Blade Runner costume (knee-length leather shearling jacket and boots) to the tense buildup suggests that the new film is promising.
The fact that there's even a Blade Runner sequel is a shock. Despite this being an epoch of franchise reboots, it's a surprise that we’ll soon be going back to the dimly lit Los Angeles of the future given the original film's reported behind-the-scenes on-set bickering and studio disagreements, as well as the fact that it had a mediocre performance at the box office.
The latest Blade Runner is directed by Denis Villeneuve, who brought this year’s fantastic hit Arrival to the big screen, and also stars Jared Leto, Robin Wright and Dave Bautista.
Blade Runner 2049 is set to release October, 2017
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