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dragon53
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
This post covers news that was missed during the movie/tv news hiatus.
BLADE RUNNER 2---director Denis Villeneauve said the sequel will answer the question about Rick Deckard being a human or a replicant, "I love mystery. I love shadows. I love doubts. I would just want to say to the fans that we will take care of that mystery. I will take care of it."
Ridley Scott said in 2007, "Yes, he's a replicant. He was always a replicant." Harrison Ford has said he thinks Deckard is a human.
JACK RYAN---untitled tv series underway featuring Jack Ryan as a young CIA analyst after an accident ended his career in the Marines. Carlton Cuse (LOST) is the creator.
IN THE LINE OF FIRE---NBC tv series underway based on the 1993 Clint Eastwood Secret Service movie. The tv series will have a male Secret Service agent teaming up with a female agent to investigate cases. The creators are the CSI team of Carol Mendelsohn and Josh Berman.
TAKEN---NBC tv series underway based on the Liam Neeson movie franchise. The tv series will be a prequel to the movies focusing on Bryan Mills as a CIA agent.
MOREAU---CBS tv series underway based on the HG Wells novel THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU. The series will be set in the present with the island's bestial experiments being conducted by Dr. Katherine Moreau. Phillip Iscove (SLEEPY HOLLOW) is the creator.
20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA---Bryan Singer (X-MEN) said his next movie will be based on the classic Jules Verne novel, "This will be an epic and emotional adventure for all ages! An adventure very dear to my heart".
GAME OF THRONES---Essie Davis (THE BABADOOK) has joined the cast as an actress in a traveling theater group in Season 6.
ALIEN: PARADISE LOST---Ridley Scott commented on if PARADISE LOST will connect the PROMETHEUS universe to the ALIEN universe, "Yes, but it won't be in the next one. It will be in the one after this one or maybe even a fourth film before we get back into the ALIEN franchise..."
He added, "The whole point of it is to explain the ALIEN franchise and to explain the how and why of the creation of the Alien itself. I always thought of the Alien as kind of a piece of bacterial warfare. I always thought that that original ship, which I call the Croissant, was a battleship, holding these biomechanoid creatures that were all about destruction."
THE WALKING DEAD---British actor Tom Payne will play Paul "Jesus" Monroe in Season 6. Also, speculation is that a casting call for a character named ""Orin" for Season 6's final episode is really a cover for the villain Negan.
MEG---director Eli Roth said the prehistoric shark in this movie based on the novel will be CGI, "We just turned in the script to the studio...I'm doing some character and creature designs...The thing is with Meg, the size of the creature, it sort of becomes impractical to do it practically, but I've seen how they've done the whale in IN THE HEART OF THE SEA. They showed me footage and they're like, 'Before you judge CG, take a look at this,' and I was like, 'Oh my god.' The whale in IN THE HEART OF THE SEA looks so good. I was like, 'All right, we're good.'
He added, "I wouldn't do the movie unless I believed the technology was there to do it and the great thing is with Warner Bros and the team that we're doing [it] with, we're gonna have the resources to do it right."
WONDER WOMAN---Eva Green (CASINO ROYALE) and Sean Bean (GAME OF THRONES) are in talks to play villains in the Gal Gadot movie. Green would play Circe the Sorceress, and Bean would play Ares, the God of War.
GOTHAM---it was confirmed the Court of Owls will be in Season 2.
CHIPs---Kristen Bell (VERONICA MARS) is joining the cast of the movie based on the tv series. Bell's husband, Dax Shepard, is the movie's co-star/writer/director.
SCREAM QUEENS---the premiere drew a disappointing 4 million viewers.
GHOSTBUSTERS---Annie Potts is returning in a cameo as a hotel clerk.
NEW GIRL---Megan Fox (TRANSFORMERS) is joining the cast in Season 6.
JACK REACHER---Patrick Heusinger is in talks to play the sequel's villain. Tom Cruise and Cobie Smulders star.
TWIN PEAKS---Amanda Seyfried and Balthazar Getty have joined the cast of the sequel series.
THE COMMUTER---Liam Neeson stars in this movie about a businessman commuting to home when he accidentally becomes involved in a criminal conspiracy.
WEAVEWORLD---CW tv series underway based on the Clive Barker novel.
THE GIRL IN THE RAIN---Chris Evans and Jared Leto are in talks to co-star with Emily Blunt in this movie based on the novel.
BLADE---Wesley Snipes commented on returning for a possible sequel, "There's always a possibility, you know. It's in Marvel's hands. They're controlling the pace and the flow with that. Conversations have been good. They see the value in it. We see the value in it."
He added about returning as Blade in an Avengers sequel, "That would be interesting. I mean, I know it's in the comic book. It would be interesting to see where they would place him and where he really would fit in. He's got to bite somebody. I don't know who he's going to bite... We'll see how it goes. I don't really know what's going to happen to it yet."
VIA LA MADNESS---Jason Statham will star in this action/comedy tv series based on the book. Daniel Craig played the same anonymous character in LAYER CAKE.
BBC ONE---upcoming projects include:
1. TROY-FALL OF THE CITY---a miniseries about the Trojan War from a Trojan family's perspective.
2. THE CORMORAN STRIKE MYSTERIES---series based on the JK Rowling novels about a veteran who becomes a private detective.
3. TO SIR WITH LOVE---tv movie based on the novel.
4. RUSH OF BLOOD---three-part miniseries based on the novel about three couples who return from a Florida vacation and discover one of them is a murderer.
5. DICKENSIAN---20-part series starring Stephen Rea as a "LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN-type" literary hero.
6. THE LAST POST---eight-part miniseries based on the novel set in 1965 Aden about a British counter-terrorism unit.
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BLADE RUNNER 2
I need to be educated, obviously.
How the hell could Rick Deckard be a replicant?
Is there ANY evidence in Blade Runner to suggest it???
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
This post covers news that was missed during the movie/tv news hiatus.
BLADE RUNNER 2---director Denis Villeneauve said the sequel will answer the question about Rick Deckard being a human or a replicant, "I love mystery. I love shadows. I love doubts. I would just want to say to the fans that we will take care of that mystery. I will take care of it."
Ridley Scott said in 2007, "Yes, he's a replicant. He was always a replicant." Harrison Ford has said he thinks Deckard is a human.
If anything that quote indicates that he will preserve the mystery rather then solve it. Which would be the only way to go IMO. The answer regarding Deckard's true origin's isnt nearly as interesting as the question.
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He has none of the physical traits of a replicant which are super strength and lack of exhaustion. This is the same kind of buffoonery Ron Moore pulled when he made four clearly human characters Cylons in BSG. Second Deckard was a washed up soulless man that found his humanity threw a replicant. Making him a replicant nullifies the characters emotional journey.
Ridley Scott disagrees!
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He has none of the physical traits of a replicant which are super strength and lack of exhaustion. This is the same kind of buffoonery Ron Moore pulled when he made four clearly human characters Cylons in BSG. Second Deckard was a washed up soulless man that found his humanity threw a replicant. Making him a replicant nullifies the characters emotional journey.
Ridley Scott disagrees!
Yeah Ridley Scott changed and fucked up Blade Runner with impling that Deckard was a Replicant.
By doing so he robbed his own movie from the very soul it had with Deckard being a Blade Runner who virtually had no chance against the Replicants, but Batty sparred his life. Every Replicant had strength, but Deckard had not and only got lucky killing Leon and Priss (and that stripper who I can´t remember the name of) Wouldn´t Deckard have that strength too then?
No. Scott did this to provoce from an old movie because he could...
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He has none of the physical traits of a replicant which are super strength and lack of exhaustion. This is the same kind of buffoonery Ron Moore pulled when he made four clearly human characters Cylons in BSG. Second Deckard was a washed up soulless man that found his humanity threw a replicant. Making him a replicant nullifies the characters emotional journey.
Ridley Scott disagrees!
Yeah Ridley Scott changed and fucked up Blade Runner with impling that Deckard was a Replicant.
By doing so he robbed his own movie from the very soul it had with Deckard being a Blade Runner who virtually had no chance against the Replicants, but Batty sparred his life. Every Replicant had strength, but Deckard had not and only got lucky killing Leon and Priss (and that stripper who I can´t remember the name of) Wouldn´t Deckard have that strength too then?
No. Scott did this to provoce from an old movie because he could...
And all of this is exactly why I, for one, have absolutely no desire to see a Blade Runner sequel.
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. Every Replicant had strength, but Deckard had not and only got lucky killing Leon and Priss (and that stripper who I can´t remember the name of) Wouldn´t Deckard have that strength too then?
Racheal didnt have strength, or she would have been able to fend of Deckards rough advances.
And she was confirmed beyond a doubt to have been a Replicant. So that theory doesnt hold.
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Sep 28, 2015 - 3:00 AM
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That Scott implied Deckard was a replicant, is fairly common knowledge. Especially in the director's cut, as previously mentioned. In fact, the 'paper unicorn' that remained in the theatrical cut is rather out-of-place, considering the unicorn flashback was cut out. As it is, it just stands a souvenir of Gaff's visit to the apartment and nothing more.
So yeah -- I'd be interested in seeing Scott and Villeneuve pursue that path in the sequel. The idea of a person not knowing he's a replicant/android has always intrigued me.
I didn't think anything of the origami unicorn the countless times I saw "Blade Runner" without the unicorn dream inserted. Gaff is making weird origami figures throughout the entire film, so why would another one imply anything specific in regards to Deckard? If anything, wouldn't it be a "message" (if indeed it had any deeper meaning) aimed at Rachel, and not Deckard? After all, it was *her* that he allowed to live.
And why is all this news to Harrison Ford? So Ridley Scott didn't tell his main actor what his character was about? That seems rather odd to me. All this stuff smacks of latter-day revisionism.
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