

Blade Runner 2 ? Non, bien sur je ne parle pas du roman de K. W. Jeter, mais bel et bien de ce qui vient d’être annoncé par Ridley Scott dans une interview récente pour le Wall Street Journal :
Blade Runner Convention Reel (1982) from Joan Fuste on Vimeo.

LOS ANGELES, CA, AUGUST 18, 2011—Three-time Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott is set to helm a follow up to his own ground-breaking 1982 science fiction classic “Blade Runner” for Warner Bros-based financing and production company Alcon Entertainment ( « The Blind Side, » « The Book of Eli » ).
Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove will produce with Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, along with Ridley Scott. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.
The filmmakers have not yet revealed whether the theatrical project will be a prequel or sequel to the renowned original.
Alcon and Yorkin recently announced that they are partnering to produce “Blade Runner” theatrical sequels and prequels, in addition to all television and interactive productions.
The original film, which has been singled out as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.
State Kosove and Johnson: “It would be a gross understatement to say that we are elated Ridley Scott will shepherd this iconic story into a new, exciting direction. We are huge fans of Ridley’s and of the original ‘Blade Runner.’ This is once in a lifetime project for us.”
Scott is represented by David Wirtschafter at WME and David Nochinson at Ziffren Brittenham.
Released by Warner Bros. almost 30 years ago, "Blade Runner" was adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples from Philip K. Dick's groundbreaking novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and directed by Scott following his landmark “Alien.” The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction). Following the filming of “Blade Runner,” the first of Philip K. Dick’s works to be adapted into a film, many other of Dick’s works were likewise adapted, including “Total Recall,” “A Scanner Darkly,” “Minority Report,” “Paycheck,” and the recent “The Adjustment Bureau,” among others.
(Merci à Thomas qui a déniché le lien.)
[It's] a joy and a privilege to be back in Dick’s world. I’ve been a lifelong fan. He is the master of creating worlds which not only spark the imagination, but offer deeper commentary on the human condition. Howard is one of Britain’s most highly regarded writers and will bring even more depth to Dick’s classic.
In the year 2091 AD, a race of futuristic bounty hunters called "Blade Runners" are tasked with exterminating a deadly breed of lifelike robots known as "Replicoids." When Replicoid Cy Borg threatens to take over the entire internet using an advanced computer virus, Blade Runner Deckard 2.0 must stop him... or else all humanity may be destroyed!
Gaff: It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
Deckard 2.0: [voiceover] It was then I learned I had been a Replicoid the entire time. I couldn't believe it! I thought I was a human being... but I was wrong... dead wrong.
DECKARD (V.O.)
I told myself over and over again, if I hadn't done it, they would have.
I didn't go back to the city, not that city, I didn't want the job.
She said the great advantage of being alive was to have a choice. And she chose. And a part of me was almost glad. Not because she was gone but because this way they could never touch her.
As for Tyrell -- he was murdered, but he wasn't dead. For a long time I wanted to kill him. But what was the point? There were too many Tyrells. But only one Rachael. Maybe real and unreal could never be separated. The secret never found. But I got as close with her as I'd ever come to it. She'd stay with me a long time. I guess we made each other real.
Deckard regarde alentours. Son portefeuille posé à côté de lui contient une photo de sa femme et de son fils.DECKARD (V.O.)
It was too late now. They would'nt give me papers for the Colonies even if I wanted them. It made me wonder more than ever what they do up there... I wondered who designs the ones like me... what choices we have... and which ones we just think we have.
La caméra zoome sur le visage tendu de Deckard.DECKARD (V.O.)
I wondered if I had really loved her. I wondered which of my memories were real and which belonged to someone else.
DECKARD (V.O.)
The great Tyrrell hadn't designed me, but whoever had, hadn't done so much better. 'You're programmed too,' she told me, and she was right. In my own modest way, I was a combat model. Roy Batty was my late brother.
DECKARD (V.O.)
I knew it on the roof that night. We were brothers, Roy Batty and I ! Combat models of the highest order. We had fought in wars not yet dreamed of... in vast nightmares still unnamed. We were the new people... Roy and me and Rachael ! We were made for this world. It was ours!
CREDITS ARE ROLLING, God help us all !
(j'ai honteusement repris un article de io9)
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