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BREAKING: Hampton Fancher is in talks to join director Ridley Scott in developing a new version of Blade Runner for Alcon Entertainment. Alcon is acknowledging the film is a sequel, and that it takes place some years after the first film concluded. Fancher cowrote the original Blade Runner, based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?
Alcon Entertainment had the rights to the 1982 science fiction classic that starred Harrison Ford, but excitement on the project really escalated once Deadline revealed last August that Scott would come back and revisit the source material as director. Scott’s next film is Prometheus, a film that started as a prequel to his classic Alien, which he and Fox consider to be an original film. That’s different from Blade Runner, which at this point is being considered a sequel, even though Alcon has gone on record that the next movie won’t focus on Ford’s character, who hunted replicants until he fell in love with one. According to Alcon, Scott and Fancher intended Blade Runner to be the first in a series of films, but that didn’t happen. Now they are taking their crack at the second installment.
Scott is producing with Alcon cofounders Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove, as well as Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin. Thunderbirg Films’ Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble are exec producing. Fancher is repped by APA.
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Interesting. But no David Peoples?
John Doe, what was your response when Lisberger, Boxleitner, and Bridges were announced for Tron Legacy? I bet it was something like “Interesting. But no Cindy Morgan?”
That’s not quite fair. I wondered the same thing when I read it, and I’m not some drooling fanboy. David Peoples was a major part of the original creative team.
Seriously CuppaJoe? You’re trying to include ‘TRON: Legacy’ in your snarkass reply? REALLY? Only thing that sucked worse than your weak sauce retort was TRON: Legacy.
“DON’T FUCK THIS UP MITCHELLLL!!!!” -3 O’Clock High
I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain… Time to die.
Hauer’s “tears in the rain” speech remains, for reasons that pass understanding, the most overrated hunk of pretentious clap-trap ever written by a screenwriter (or improvised by an actor, if we’re to believe Mr. Hauer).
I agree that it’s pretentious, and I’d add that I find it juvenile and embarrassing coming out of the mouth of an adult. Internet legend would have it that Hauer wrote the speech himself, but apparently the truth is that he just edited it down from the original screenplay.
The use of “pretentious clap-trap ever written” is, in itself, pretentious clap-trap.
Joyless hipster is joyless.
You think that’s pretentious? Then you know NOTHING about screenwriting. That was a haiku of
a much grander monologue that Fancher wrote and was equally amazing. The moments of a life, the spectacle, reduced to a few simple lines before an android, who hasn’t the experience or time to understand that life, expires. Incredible scene.
I’m with you. The speech is the highlight of the movie and underscores the irony that Hauer’s character has more humanity than Ford’s automaton.
This is great news. Blade Runner belongs to Fancher every bit as much as it belongs to Ridley Scott. I don’t think Fancher would have come aboard unless he had a juicy idea or two. This should be interesting.
Yeah, what about David People’s, you know, the guy who also wrote Unforgiven and 12 Monkeys? Ah, he wrote Blade Runner too.
Guess this proves Deckard wasn’t a replicant. Harrison Ford is like 80 years old and replicants don’t age like old action stars.
Was Ridley Scott so scared by the reaction of body of lies and robin hood that he felt the need to flee back to his older films in an effort to be cool again? First not-alien with prometheus (which admittedly, looks amazing) but a new blade runner is pushing it. Plus the fact that he stubbornly declares “He is a replicant! He is! He is! He is!” at the expense of any other interpretation, makes me think he may have lost understanding of his own masterpiece.
Michael Bay to direct. One explosion every 2 minutes.
Dear Ridley Scott,
For cryin’ out loud, don’t!
Sincerely,
The (Relatively) Sane Part of Your Fanbase
Alcon will screw this up and they now have Ridley and his massive ego to help them screw it up. The only thing that makes sense would be to do a real sequel with Ford returning as Deckard. That would be worth making and spending money to see. Ridley should focus on Prometheus II and forget this nonsense.
Yes, by all means while the originals are still around and able. Otherwise, you won’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
Still don’t make it right.
No need for a sequel. (or prequel, remake, re-imagining, side-sequel, etc)
“What seems to be the problem?”
“Sequels.”
“That’s a little out of my…”
“i NEED more storylines, Fancher..”
Has anybody done any digging to see if the estate of Phillip K. Dick is on board with this, or is the estate’s cooperation merely assumed?
Studios are notoriously paranoid about chain of title. No one would merely “assume” they’re on board only to get sued once the movie makes $400 million. Rest assured, due diligence has taken place.
I remember prequel and sequel pitches that Ridley had set up at Touchstone with Hunt Lowrey about ten years ago that Mr. DeLine completely fucked up. Both were amazing and infinitely better than anything Alcon will ever come up with. What a waste.
This is bull. Don’t these producers know in order to do a long-delayed sequel/reboot/re-imagining you need to kick the original filmmakers out to the curb, hire a couple of TV writers from a crap sci-fi show and get a music video director to helm? What do people like Scott and Fancher know about the ‘Blade Runner’ series, anyway? Next you tell me that the producers will refuse to cast a former model in the lead. These people make me sick.
Ha! Hilarious.