Harrison Ford has officially signed on to reprise his Rick Deckard role
from the 1982 sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner in the upcoming sequel that
counts with a script penned by Hampton Fancher (Blade Runner), and Michael
Green (Green Lantern). As for directors, Prisoners, and Enemy director Denis
Villeneuve is in talks to direct. An announcement should come soon as the film
is scheduled to begin shooting in the summer of 2016, and I'm sure whoever ends
seating in the director's chair will take a go at the script.
LOS ANGELES, CA,
FEBRUARY 26, 2015 —Harrison Ford will reprise his celebrated role of Rick
Deckard in the sequel to Alcon Entertainment’s BLADE RUNNER and Academy Award
nominee Denis Villeneuve to (Prisoners, Incendies) is in negotiations to
direct, it was announced by Alcon co-founders and co-CEO’s Andrew Kosove
and Broderick Johnson.
Film is scheduled to
start principle photography in summer of 2016. Hampton Fancher (co-writer of
the original) and Michael Green have written the original screenplay based on
an idea by Fancher and Ridely Scott.
The story takes place
several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original.
State Johnson and
Kosove: “We are honored that Harrison is joining us on this journey with Denis
Villeneuve, who is a singular talent, as we experienced personally on Prisoners. Hampton and Michael,
with Ridley Scott, have crafted a uniquely potent and faithful sequel to one of
the most universally celebrated films of all time, and we couldn’t be more
thrilled with this amazing, creative team.”
Ford will next be
seen in The Age of Adaline for Lionsgate and the highly anticipated
upcoming Star Wars for Walt Disney Pictures. Recent
releases include the Warner Bros./Legendary box office hit 42.
Villeneuve most
recently directed the crime thriller Sicario, staring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin,
and Benecio Del Toro for Black Label Media and Lionsgate. He also directed
Canada’s Oscar nominated French language film Incendies, and Alcon Entertainment’s
critically acclaimed Prisoners, staring
Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Alcon Entertainment
acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to BLADE RUNNER in
2011 from producer Bud Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic
science-fiction thriller. Yorkin will serve as a producer on the sequel along with
Kosove and Johnson. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce.
Frank Giustra and Tim
Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.
Among its many
distinctions, BLADE RUNNER has been singled out as one of the greatest movies
of all time by innumerable polls and media outlets, and overwhelmingly as the
greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications.
Released by Warner
Bros., BLADE RUNNER was adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples
from Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and was
directed by Ridley Scott following his landmarkAlien.” The film was nominated for two
Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction).
BLADE RUNNER was
selected for preservation in the United States National Film
Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally,
historically, or aesthetically significant.” The film was selected for
preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and
is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most
visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.
ABOUT ALCON ENTERTAINMENT
Co-founders and
co-CEO’s Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson founded Alcon Entertainment in
1997 with partner Frederick W. Smith, the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of FedEx. Warner Bros. distributes Alcon’s motion pictures via the
companies’ long-term output distribution agreement.
Alcon has financed
and produced, and/or co-financed/produced 29 films to date, including “My Dog
Skip,” the Academy Award nominated Best Picture “The Blind Side,” which earned
Sandra Bullock a Best Actress Oscar; “The Book of Eli,” starring Denzel
Washington and Gary Oldman; “Insomnia,” starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and
Hilary Swank and directed by Chris Nolan; “The Sisterhood of the Traveling
Pants;” “P.S. I Love You,” starring Hilary Swank; the critically acclaimed
“Prisoners,” a dramatic thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve starring Hugh
Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Viola Davis, Melissa Leo, Terrance Howard and Paul
Dano, and the family hit “Dolphin Tale 2,” a sequel to its original starring
Morgan Freeman, Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Kris Kristofferson. Alcon is
currently in production on “Point Break,” a reimagining of the classic action
movie filming on four continents starring Edgar Ramirez, Luke Bracey, and Ray
Winstone. The Company is also developing a sequel to “Blade Runner” with Ridley
Scott.
Alcon Television
Group is currently producing a four-hour mini-series documentary for HBO about
the life and times of Frank Sinatra, directed Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex
Gibney; and “The Expanse,” a space thriller for Syfy Network.
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