If the awful Suicide Squad taught us one thing, it’s that Jared Leto is still an awesome actor (I’ll fight you!). Sure, he’s no Heath Ledger, but I loved his interpretation of The Joker. And thus, I will continue my excitement for any role he’s attached to, including the next Blade Runner.
The Domino dropped when Alcon Entertainment announced that Ryan Gosling would star with Harrison Ford returning to his role as Rick Deckard.
Then shit really got real when they cast Robin Wright, best remembered as the beauty in The Princess Bride, and now playing the powerful and gorgeous First Lady in Netflix’s blockbuster series “House of Cards”.
It only got better from there, stringing together monstrous name including Dave Bautista, Knock Knock‘s Ana de Armas, Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks and even Carla Juri of Wetlands.
Then, another one of the best actresses on television was announced as part of this Ridley Scott film: Mackenzie Davis, who starred in Scott’s The Martian, as well as AMC’s astounding tech drama “Halt and Catch Fire”.
Sicario and Prisoners director Denis Villeneuve helming the sequel, set several decades after the original. It is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and succeeds the initial story by Fancher and David Peoples based on Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”
An October 6, 2017 release is planned through Warner Bros.