Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (No Spoilers Thread)

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[Judderman]

The latest trailer at the cinema was great. It was quite action packed but I think everybody should go there with no illusions it will be anything like the first film. I don't seeing it being a similar type of classic. But it should be good. Fingers crossed.

 

[Brian G Turner]

The original Blade Runner film was driven by atmosphere and character. There was no big external plot, and - as we've seen with the Deckard as a replicant debate - questions were raised but never answered.

However, in Blade Runner: 2049 I suspect - from the trailers - that they are going to do a standard a external plot-driven story fronted by atmospheric visuals and audio more familiar from the original. If that's the case, not something to get our hopes too high about.

 

[Overread]

Honestly I'll be impressed if its clear that they've based the story off the original film story.

These days I think too many either just steal the title for the fanbase and then write something else; or they write a story based off an earlier screenplay of the film that we never got to see; thus having some connections but clearly having some huge errors/gaps/issues between the two films.

It was one thing I really liked about the new Mad Max film. It didn't answer questions; it didn't challenge anything from earlier films and if anything deepens the plot/mystery around the wanderer and his role in the world. And in the end it wasn't changing the world either; it was an adventure in part of a massive world - something that I think escapes us today in writing and films.

 

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I feel more confident.

 

[Judderman]

Spoiler based on trailer in white text: Looks cool but appears to be a detective-action with the objective to stop whoever is constructing an android army. A bit generic?.You could argue the first film is a detective film as well but I think it is more than that. I stopped before the end but I think trailers these days lay out too much of the plot.

 

[The Crawling Chaos]

If this movie is in any way worthy of its predecessor and if Villeneuve is faithful to his reputation, the plot is mostly a red herring for what the movie actually has to offer, and it will be up to the audience to engage with it and peel off the layers one at a time.

I just rewatched the original teaser trailer for the first movie. It looks like a detective film and reveals shots from all the fight scenes in the movie, minus the one between Deckard and Pris. None of the interesting stuff, other than the breathtaking visuals, is even hinted at.

Movie marketing 101: If your movie cost a fortune, no matter how high-brow it is, cut the trailer as you would for a mindless action film to alienate as little of the audience as possible and bring in the big numbers. The big suits over in Hollywood know that the classic or cerebral SF aficionados cannot afford to sit this one out. All they have to do is get the (younger?) SF action fan base on board. They're doing a good job of it.

 

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Official short

 

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Nice article on Ridley Scott's choice for the director.

meet Denis Villeneuve in Barcelona, on the balcony of a hotel, on the kind of sweltering day where even a breeze is just tossing around the heat. He is semi-scruffy and almost permanently excited.The ruins of Mosul have exposed the future of high-tech warfare

That Villeneuve would go on to be the director who's almost single-handedly reviving that all-too-rare and seemingly extinct sub-genre - sci-fi for smart people - is perhaps, given his background, apt. But to follow 2016's Arrival - which featured Amy Adams as a linguistics professor attempting to communicate with aliens, was nominated for eight Oscars and managed to be equal parts Steven Spielberg and Charlie Kaufman - with the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, 35 years after the original he saw at 14, borders on deus ex machina. Or, put another way, it's almost bad scriptwriting. What were the odds?

Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve has become science-fiction's new hope

 

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Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo fame is directing a short Blade Runner anime. Sony Pictures Japan has uploaded a sneak peek of the short.

The short anime is called Blade Runner Black Out 2022. It takes place a few years after the first movie and, according to NetLab, is set during a power outage.

“The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, Blade Runner,” Watanabe says in the teaser clip, which shows test animation, concept art, and a few seconds of animation. He adds that in making this short, he’s keeping two things in mind: paying maximum respect to the original Blade Runner and trying not to create an imitation.

The anime will be shown on the Sony Pictures Japan YouTube channel on 26 September.

Blade Runner is Getting a Short Anime From Cowboy Bebop's Director

 

[Overread]

Honestly I'm MORE excited about that! (esp since I keep hoping Anime has a huge revival of what it was in the 80s era - as opposed to its current bulk of shows)

 

[Vince W]

Blade Runner and Anime are a perfect match! I hope it's great and then we get more!

 

[AlexH]

I saw some of the latest trailer at the cinema. It definitely looked like it was something I wanted to see. As soon as I realised it was Blade Runner, I closed my eyes (to avoid spoilers).

Hopefully the anime is good too.

 

[BAYLOR]

Based on the trailer, it looks pretty good. However , a good trailer doesn't guarantee it's a good film. But I'm a fan of the first film, so I want see it regardless.

 

[Eni6ma]

Based on the trailer, it looks pretty good. However , a good trailer doesn't guarantee it's a good film. But I'm a fan of the first film, so I want see it regardless.

I think it looks promising too! I think I will go see it!

 

[HanaBi]

Am just thinking out loud here, but when the film is released in a couple of weeks time, it might be best to create a separate thread for those that have watched and subsequently commented on it, along with any spoiler alert notifications.

Would really hate to see spoilers inadvertently posted here.

 

[Vince W]

Second official short:

 

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[HanaBi]

Seems like some good vibes coming from the lucky few journalists who have seen sneak previews prior to its release.

"Good news!" tweeted Guardian scribe Jordan Hoffman. "Blade Runner 2049 is a terrific continuation and expansion of the orig[inal]."

Erik Davis from the movie site Fandango agreed, calling Denis Villeneuve's film a "sci-fi masterpiece".

"If you were worried, don't be," said Empire contributing editor Dan Jolin of the follow-up to Ridley Scott's film.


Blade Runner 2049: The first reactions

 

[Vince W]

Blade Runner Black Out 2022. The third short.