Ridley Scott has been giving an update on BLADE RUNNER 2, confirming that Harrison Ford will return as jaded replicant hunter Deckard, but in a smaller role. As for the master stylist who helmed the influential but troubled original, there’s disappointing news – Scott is out of the director’s chair, acting as producer only. With cameras set to crank up next year he elaborated a little about what the sequel would contain:
We (Scott and first film writer Hampton Fancher) talked at length about what it could be, and came up with a pretty strong three-act storyline, and it all makes sense in terms of how it relates to the first one… Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.
This suggests a new set of characters, getting around the thorny topic of having an ageing Ford blowing the positrons out of all unsundry, though the absence of Scott in that key creative role is enough to make a robot weep. He brought us one of cinema’s definitive immersive environments and though he’ll be casting a beady eye on proceedings the production will have an even steeper mountain to climb in matching its Philip K. Dick source material. Meanwhile, Scott is expanding his sci-fi credentials by overseeing a TV adaptation of Arthur C. Clarke’s 3001.
Source: Indiewire
