Speaking at the AFI festival in Los Angeles, Ridley Scott
decided to spoil the upcoming Blade Runner sequel by revealing the opening
scene, which according to him Hampton Fancher and David Peoples had originally
written for the first film, but that it was never used.
While the 1982 film was set in a dim and crowded dystopian
future of Los Angeles, Scott who is producing the film, revealed that the it
will open on a flat, expansive, and apparently arid, Wyoming farm.
We decided to start
the film off with the original starting block of the original film. We
always loved the idea of a dystopian universe, and we start off at what I
describe as a ‘factory farm’ – what would be a flat land with farming. Wyoming.
Flat, not rolling – you can see for 20 miles. No fences, just plowed, dry dirt.
Turn around and you see a massive tree, just dead, but the tree is being
supported and kept alive by wires that are holding the tree up. It’s a bit like
Grapes of Wrath, there’s dust, and the tree is still standing. By that tree is
a traditional, Grapes of Wrath-type white cottage with a porch. Behind it at a
distance of two miles, in the twilight, is this massive combine harvester
that’s fertilizing this ground. You’ve got 16 Klieg lights on the front, and
this combine is four times the size of this cottage. And now a spinner [a
flying car] comes flying in, creating dust. Of course, traditionally chased by
a dog that barks, the doors open, a guy gets out and there you’ve got Rick
Deckard. He walks in the cottage, opens the door, sits down, smells stew, sits
down and waits for the guy to pull up to the house to arrive. The guy’s seen
him, so the guy pulls the combine behind the cottage and it towers three
stories above it, and the man climbs down from a ladder – a big man. He
steps onto the balcony and he goes to Harrison’s side. The cottage actually
[creaks]; this guy’s got to be 350 pounds. I’m not going to say anything else –
you’ll have to go see the movie.
Furthermore, in the original scene Deckard introduces
himself to the guy before shooting him and reaping off his jaw, revealing that
he was a replicant.
Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) replaced Scott at the helm
of the sequel while the filmmaker focuses on Alien: Covenant.
Harrison Ford is set to reprise his iconic role and
Ryan Gosling already confirmed he has a role in the movie, and that it would be
his next project.
There isn't a release date for Blade Runner 2 just
yet.
Source - /Film
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