May 12th 2012 - Heard it on the grape vine..
Well actually the horses mouth as they say. Kazuchoice is hard at work at his White dragon Final Cut of Blade Runner. This is to include cleaned up deleted scenes, New LA scene,Frozen Chew,Zora's snake dance and more. no details on a release date as yet.
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May 10th 2012 - Blaster in Photoshop
Todd C has kindly submitted his work done in Photoshop. The blog detailing the progress can be found HERE
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May 8th 2012 - Deckards apartment.
Gary Willoughby has be researching the Ennis-Brown House (Glendower Avenue, Silverlake, Los Angeles.) and come up with this article for Bladezone. check it out HERE
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April 18th 2012 - Workprint T-Shirts !!
Eamon Carney-Holland has contacted BladeZone (and kindly sent me a t-shirt!) to inform us of their Workprint t-shirts. It's the description thats given out at the start of the workprint film, specifically the defention of REPLICANT as written in the New American Dictionary (c)2016. Checkout their site HERE
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April 2nd 2012 - BR game re-review
Huge thanks to Jason in Seattle, who has re-reviewed an aging classic that I had almost forgotten about - the classic 1997
Westwood Studios game: Blade Runner. whilst i'd love to remenis this old classic, its far better to watch this youtube clip! check it out HERE
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November 14th 2011 - Hal's latest release V8 !!
This picture was inspired by the very Sir Ridley Scott.. check it out HERE
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October 28th 2011 - Edge Radio Request BR Special
On the 6th November at 10PM AEST Joseph O'Brien
(Presenter Edge Radio) and two co-hosts will be airing a BR special including interviews with Syd Mead and Morgan Paul. Catch the interview at the selected date HERE
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October 21st 2011 - Blaster Gun update
Richard Coyle has been hard at work (aswell as his proof reading wife!) and has presented BladeZone with a fantastic addition to his Blaster Gun page. Richard had already amazed us with his in-depth knowledge of the blaster, and has now taken it a step further. You can jump straight to the review HERE and navigate from there.
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September 17th 2011 - Spinner anyone?
Two links to spinners have turned up at Bladezone today, the first is in the form of a kit you can buy HERE and secondly, a great section on spinners which is well worth a look over at BRUCE'S DOMAIN
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August 20th 2011 - Ridley Scott to Direct New 'Blade Runner' Movie
Massive news on the BR front hits BladeZone (a massive thans to ALL those who emailed BZ with the news)
Ridley Scott is returning to the futuristic world of Blade Runner, his iconic 1982 film, for a new feature for Warners-based Alcon Entertainment.
Adapted from Philip K. Dick’s story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?,” Scott’s original film -- with its mix of rainy, neon-lit exteriors, its human-like androids call replicants, and its shadowy, controlling corporation -- established a template for dystopian views of the future. In 2007, it was named the second most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.
While the new movie is being described as a “follow-up” to the first film, the filmmakers have not yet disclosed whether it will function as a prequel or a sequel to the original. One thing it won't be, though, is a re-make, Alcon co-head Andrew Kosove said. "We very fortunate that Ridley Scott has decided to come back to one of his seminal movies," he added. "And with Ridley, I can tell you it will be fresh and original."
With no screenplay in place at the moment, the producers are currently meeting with writers. Kosove declined to say what direction the project would go it, but did say he didn't expect Harrison Ford, who starred in the original movie as a retired cop who hunts down replicants, to be involved.
Alcon, the financing and production company behind movies like The Blind Side and The Book of Eli, recently partnered with producer Bud Yorkin to produce new Blade Runner films as well as TV and interactive productions based on the property. Alcon hasn't decided yet if it will finance the entire production itself or whether it will bring in partners like Warners, through which it will release the movie.
Alcon co-founders and co-CEOs Broderick Johnson and Kosove will produce the new film with Yorkin, Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and Scott. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEOs of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.
Scott, repped by WME and Ziffren Brittenham, is currently completing another sci-fi feature Prometheus, which has connections to his 1979 movie Alien, and which will be released by Fox on June 8, 2012. (direct text from the hollywood reporter)
Here also is a clip from Mike fleming -
EXCLUSIVE: After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film. Scott has signed on to direct and produce a new installment of Blade Runner. He’ll make the film with Alcon Entertainment, producing with Alcon partners Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. This would be the most high profile project for Alcon since The Blind Side. They got control of the franchise earlier this year, but it's a whole different ballgame with Scott at the helm.
I’m not getting a clear sense at this point whether Scott intends to do a sequel or a prequel to the 1982 film that was loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Also unclear is whether they start fresh or reach out to Harrison Ford. The original took place in dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, in which organic superhuman robots called replicants escaped and are hiding somewhere on earth. Ford played Richard Deckard, a burnt out blade runner assigned to hunt them down. His tired life gets altered when he himself falls for one of the replicants and struggles to keep her from being destroyed.
The film was not a blockbuster when first released--it grossed $32 million in its original run--but the film has gained esteem over time. From the bleak but breathtaking visuals to the complex storyline and themes of mortality, Blade Runner became a classic. There has periodically been talks of doing a sequel but those never really went anywhere. After injecting state of the art 3D in reviving Alien, imagine what Scott can do with Blade Runner? Now, the filmmaker is ready to engage. Alcon has its output deal with Warner Bros, which remastered and released a 25th anniversary version on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2007. Warner Bros made the original film.
This is just the first step and the project will have to be written and it will likely evolve during that process. That's what happened on Alien, which began as a prequel to his 1979 classic. That changed when Lost's Damon Lindelof came in with a different take on the subject matter that imprinted on Scott and Fox executives. They wound up making Prometheus, which Fox considers an original but which I've heard is a cousin to the original Alien franchise. That film will be released June 8, 2012, with Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce starring. Scott is repped by WME.
The thoughs of what a prequel would include are immense (for example how replicants came about, original draft scenes like batty off-colony working in the burning furnice etc) and the prequel?? how did Deckard and Racheal pan out? how long was life really? did anybody eventually come after Racheal? OMG so many questions...
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