After a Facebook Live event, Warner Bros. Pictures released the full trailer for Blade Runner 2049, directed by Sicario and Prisoners’ Denis Villeneuve.
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
The trailer is stunning and vibrant, yet harks back to Ridley Scott’s 1982 sci-fi noir classic. Jared Leto appears to be one of the film’s antagonists, giving birth to a variety of Replicants, while Harrison Ford looks to be in a seminal sequence in the middle of the investigation. There’s a ton of new “tech” and cool sets and vehicles, with Villeneuve’s fingerprints on everything. What do you think?
The domino initially dropped when Alcon Entertainment announced that Ryan Gosling would star with Harrison Ford returning to his role as Rick Deckard. The above synopsis sounded a bit like Star Wars: The Force Awakens, although the announcement trailer seemed to reveal that the duo connects much earlier than when Luke appears in the final frames of Star Wars.
The casting process was insane, starting with 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”. Jared Leto was also attached to an undisclosed role.
The sequel is 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 Warners.
