The Blade Runner sequel has a cast that’s hitting God level.
The Domino dropped when they 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.
Now, another one of the best actresses on television is going to be featured in a Ridley Scott film. Mackenzie Davis, who starred in Scott’s The Martian, as well as AMC’s astounding tech drama “Halt and Catch Fire”, has joined the cast.
Davis is perfect casting if they’re trying to echo the look of Daryl Hannah in the 1982 Blade Runner. She played Priscilla Stratton, a pleasure model of the film’s replicants (see below). She was also the girlfriend of fellow replicant, Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer).
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.
