New 'Blade Runner' Posters Tease The Dystopian Future Of 2049

What is it with aging men and their eagerness to mess with their legacy? Ridley Scott returned to the “Alien” franchise and Harrison Ford revisited “Star Wars,” plans to go back to “Indiana Jones,” and this fall will step into the world of “Blade Runner” again. Now Scott isn’t directing the new iteration, “Blade Runner 2049,” but he was integral to getting the movie off the ground, helped hire writers and producers, and remains an executive producer on the project.

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Instead, Denis Villeneuve, the exciting filmmaker behind “Sicario,” “Prisoners” and “Enemy,” is directing the film and taking on the daunting task of living up to the original 1982 film. With the original set in 2019, you’d think, given we’re two years away and we’re not even remotely close to flying cars, replicants and offshore colonies on different planets, they might want to set “Blade Runner 2049” in a more realistic future, but instead they’ve set the movie only thirty years later. Here’s the official synopsis:

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

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“Blade Runner 2049” stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto. Shot by cinematographer Roger Deakins (“Sicario,” “Prisoners”) and written by Hampton Fancher (the original “Blade Runner” scribe) and Michael Green (“American Gods,” “Logan,” “Green Lantern,” “Murder On The Orient Express“), “Blade Runner 2049” arrives in theaters on October 6th.blade_runner_twenty_forty_nine_ver4_xxlg

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