Blade Runner 2 To Open Three Months Earlier

Alcon Entertainment has shifted the upcoming Blade Runner sequel from its original January 12, 2018 release date to a more suitable and quite frankly more flattering new one. January is generally known for being a dumping ground for subpar movies, of course, there is always the exception to the rule, Kung Fu Panda 3, Ride Along, and Cloverfield come to mind.

Whatever the case maybe, Blade Runner 2 will now open on October 6, 2017, and although it escapes January's cinematic wasteland, it will run into a couple of big projects that may or may not end up making the new date even less desirable than the previous.

The date picked coincides with the release of an untitled Fox/Marvel movie, which could be Gambit with Channing Tatum, and an equally untitled Warner Bros. event film.

“BLADE RUNNER” SEQUEL WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE

MOVES TO OCTOBER 6, 2017

LOS ANGELES, CA, April 20, 2016 – Alcon Entertainment’s sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece BLADE RUNNER, starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright and Dave Bautista, will now be released worldwide on October 6, 2017, it was announced by Alcon co-founders and co-CEO’s Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Warner Bros will release the film in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute in all overseas territories in all media.

The film, initially set for a January 12, 2018 North American release, will be directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners). Principal photography is scheduled to begin July 2016.

The sequel, set several decades after the original, 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. Story details are not being revealed.

Multi-Oscar nominated cinematographer Roger Deakins (Sicario, Prisoners)will reunite with Villeneuve on the project.

Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to BLADE RUNNER in 2011 from the late producer Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic science-fiction thriller. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will produce along with Johnson and Kosove. Bud Yorkin will receive producer credit.

Ridley Scott will serve as Executive Producer. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will also serve as executive producers along with Bill Carraro.

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