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Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 11:24 am

I'd watch a remake under the following circumstances: <BR> <BR>1) it was directed by Ridley Scott, using a screenwriter and art directors he personally approved. He still works with Terry Rawlings in the editing room, so that's okay. <BR>2) it starred Harrison Ford <BR> <BR>...otherwise I'd just be sick. Using TV actors? Please, give us a break!
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Post Tue Jan 29, 2002 3:08 pm

In all honesty, I think that if a sequel is made, no matter how much it appears to suck, we would all go and watch it because we'd just be too darn curious!!!
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Post Tue Jun 12, 2007 6:00 pm

emspace wrote:I'd watch a remake under the following circumstances:
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<BR>1) it was directed by Ridley Scott, using a screenwriter and art directors he personally approved. He still works with Terry Rawlings in the editing room, so that's okay.
<BR>2) it starred Harrison Ford
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<BR>...otherwise I'd just be sick. Using TV actors? Please, give us a break!


You are asking for a CGI monstrosity.

While RS is a great art director, I would never trust him to direct people. He is not that good. As a comparison, I use the real film noir directors of the past. Even after all this time, he is not that good yet.

The great elements of BR have nothing to do with RS awkward directorial style. His direction resembeled more the style of Gerry Anderson than Orson Wells.

In a more modern example; remember his Oscar winning Gladiator? The tigers still look fake. ;)

Directors like Terry Gilliam, Joel Coen and even Sam Raimi would be far better.

Come to think of it; Clint Eastwood might be the best director for this kind of film.
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Post Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:42 am

Velvet Cyberpunk wrote:There won't be a remake so there is no worry, but if there was a remake I think Scott Bakula would be a cool choice for Deckard, James Marsters (the guy who plays Spike in Buffy The Vampire Slayer) would be good as Roy, I'll have to think on it some more 8) for the other cast members, but I'll come up with something.
believe it or not , i think brad pit would be the perfect deck ,I mean ,can't you see him with maybe a stubby beard in some senes and scarlet johanson could be rachel and I think it would be cool to have him narrarate a couple things but don't over do it. nick nolte should play bryant and gaff ,well, george lopez could get serious....
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Post Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:42 am

Velvet Cyberpunk wrote:There won't be a remake so there is no worry, but if there was a remake I think Scott Bakula would be a cool choice for Deckard, James Marsters (the guy who plays Spike in Buffy The Vampire Slayer) would be good as Roy, I'll have to think on it some more 8) for the other cast members, but I'll come up with something.
believe it or not , i think brad pit would be the perfect deck ,I mean ,can't you see him with maybe a stubby beard in some senes and scarlet johanson could be rachel and I think it would be cool to have him narrarate a couple things but don't over do it. nick nolte should play bryant and gaff ,well, george lopez could get serious.... )
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Post Sun Feb 10, 2008 8:28 am

Just my two cents here - I'm not so sure I am sold on the remake idea - Ridley Scott set the bar so high when he made BR...CGI or not, it would have to be an incredible flick.

A sequel might be the better route to go - it could open up new characters and different "worlds". We've seen what Los Angeles could look like in 2019 - What would an off - world colony look like? What would a small town in 2019 look like? What does Deckard see out of his window now, as opposed to what he saw before he met Racheal?

The Vangelis sountrack is awesome - but one of the things that really grabbed me about the teaser trailer was the use of the 30's-ish song for the background music.

Again just my two cents!
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Post Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:28 pm

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I would like to see what an off world colony looks like. I remember wanting to see that ,out in space place like I saw in alien or outland.
Maybe early adventures before deck stopped being a br. But
I'd rather not see deck declared as a replicant in a part 2 like movie! :P


Hey ,what if the workers in the movie "outland" are replicants?
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Post Sat Jul 19, 2008 1:23 am

If there is going to be any sequel, I hope they would show us what an off-world colony looks like and how roy and his gang attacked ships on fire off the shoulder of orion. I never really liked the idea that replicants are primarily slave labor androids for the colonization of interstellar space. It's like suggesting that we have space stations in orbit while on the ground we didn't even have automobiles yet. What I really liked about BR is the philosophical question it poses as to what really makes us human. If ever they are going to do a remake, I hope they can suggest a more plausible and earthly use for replicants like in 2001's A.I.
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Post Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:13 am

endzem wrote:In all honesty, I think that if a sequel is made, no matter how much it appears to suck, we would all go and watch it because we'd just be too darn curious!!!


That's true, but .....

We also know that our expectations and desires never ever would be fulfilled.
I am convinced that it would be a failure. :(
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Post Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:40 pm

ElTorro wrote:
endzem wrote:In all honesty, I think that if a sequel is made, no matter how much it appears to suck, we would all go and watch it because we'd just be too darn curious!!!


That's true, but .....

We also know that our expectations and desires never ever would be fulfilled.
I am convinced that it would be a failure. :(



Don't be to sure that another blade runner movie will never be put together.....,I can remember when, some years after terminator 1 ,some kid was "telling a story" about a new terminator coming out,talking about how in part 2 he's going to lift up that smashing machine that flattened him and they were going to take it from there,of course that's not how terminator 2 turned out, but never the less ,there was a part 2 and a 3. I didn't even believe there would be a terminator 2 ,it seemed imposible,boy!, was I wrong!.
Another br movie ,well ,it would have to be just right enough for every br fan and how that would work would take alot of magic,..Alot of magic!
Wait a minute ,that's Ridley's middle name .:P
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Post Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:25 am

I have mentioned this before, in another context, but I'll mention it again. Let's see...The Animatrix, Batman: Gothic Knight...and maybe a Blade Runner anthology original animation DVD, featuring some of Japan's leading animation talents. Hey, it could happen! Think about it:

The Matrix and Batman are both Warner Bros. properties. Blade Runner is owned by the Blade Runner Partnership, but have renewed close connections with Warner Bros thanks to the smash hit DVD.

The threads in this forum all point to one very important truth about extending the Blade Runner world: a live-action sequel is pretty much impossible, 25 years on. A reboot is doable, with new actors, but why? The original, particularly now that we can see the director's original intent in BR:TFC, is just too good to reboot.

However: in animation, and particularly in anime, where so much of it bears influence from Blade Runner anyway, from Bubblegum Crisis to the present, the world that first appeared on the screen in 1982 can be revived so that facets of it can be examined more closely.

I am hoping that Batman: Gothic Knight is a sales success so that something like this can possibly be considered.
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Post Thu Jul 24, 2008 1:58 pm

Hey msgeek. Awsome idea! I have Animatrix and just got Gotham Knights.... both very excellent animation and story telling. The BR universe could be beautifully explored in this format. If only the head hanchos at WB would think of something like this. Wish there were someway we could pitch this idea to them...
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Post Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:47 pm

msgeek: hell yes. A remake? no. a sequel? no. A series of anime shorts based on Blade Runner? One of those things I'd like to see before I die.
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Post Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:30 pm

Duh...GOTHAM Knight. Sorry guys...
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Post Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:57 pm

I do enjoy afew remakes John Carpenter's The Thing, Zombie's Halloween, De Palma's Scarface, Scorsese's The Departed and even Van Sant's Psycho. One thing is certain, I would not tolerate a remake of Blade Runner. Like People said on this board, It will most likely happen. When it does get remade, It won't be bleak.
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