Blade Runner prequel?

I am reading on the IO9 blog news that suggests that there is a new Blade Runner movie in the wind. Yeah! I know! That was my first reaction.

But according to IO9, Alcon Entertainment Warner Bros-based financing and production company ) and Bud Yorkin are in "final negotiations" to secure the rights to the film.

But the weird thing is that the rights would be all inclusive EXCEPT to remake the film, so no reboot....prequel or sequel is what seems to be on the table.

Read the press release that IO9 posted to see the convolutions...or C...F... if you would

Blade Runner Revisited

An experimental film in tribute to Ridley Scott's legendary film “Blade Runner” (1982) by François Vautier.

This film was made as a unique picture with a resolution of 60.000 x 60.000 pixels (3.6 gigapixels) It was made with 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner'.

Vautier says to make the filme he, extracted the 167,819 frames from 'Blade Runner' then assembled all these images to obtain one gigantic square of approximately 60,000 pixels on a side or 3.5 gigapixels. The he placed a virtual camera above this big picture. So what you see is like an illusion, because contrary to appearances there is only one image. It is in fact the relative movement of the virtual camera flying over this massive image which creates the illusion of animation.

BLADE RUNNER revisited >3.6 gigapixels from françois vautier on Vimeo.

Original Vimeo Article

Like Tears in the Rain scene done in Legos?! WTF!

I am not sure if someone should be slapped for this or not. Here we have the truly iconic moment in Blade Runner done in Lego of all things...

Blade Runner - Tears in Rain (in LEGO) from Zach Macias on Vimeo.

The Brick Brothers via Make

Blade Runner Voice Over: Director Frank Darabont hated it too!

Here is a short moment where director Frank Darabont says aloud what we all thought when we first were beat about the head and shoulders by the studio voice over project of the move Blade Runner.



Darabont The Shawshank Redemption and next year's Fahrenheit 451 adaptation

Are You A Replicant?

He say U bwade wunner!

Hey you up for a Voight-Kampff? If you have to ask WTF is a Voight-Kampff then you won't get the joke. But if your geeky enough (oh yes, I am in that vein....I was the guy explaining to everyone else in the car what was happening, even with Ford's voice over!) you will want to rush right over to quibblo and get ready to laugh. Oh this is very tongue in cheek, but with enough of the questions that rock mixed in to make it great fun.


Take The Blade Runner Online Voight-Kampff Test.

Sci-fi films are as dead as Westerns, says Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott was the director of two of the most critically acclaimed science fiction films, now he believes that the genre is so tired and unoriginal that it may be dead. At the Venice Film Festival for a special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner, Scott said that science fiction films were going the way the Western once had. “There’s nothing original. We’ve seen it all before. Been there. Done it,” he said. Asked to pick out examples, he said: “All of them. Yes, all of them.” The flashy effects of recent block-busters, such as The Matrix, Independence Day and The War of the Worlds, may sell tickets, but director Scott believes that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Scott said “There is an over reliance on special effects as well as weak storylines,”

Click HERE for the complete TimesOnline story

Blows Against the Empire (book discussion )

From the New Yorker Adam Gopnik writes about Blows against the Empire a book that looks into the phenomena that was Phillip K. Dick. Here is an excerpt.

Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K. Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died in 1982, only fifty-three. His reputation has risen through the two parallel operations that genre writers get when they get big. First, he has become a prime inspiration for the movies, becoming for contemporary science-fiction and fantasy movies what Raymond Chandler was for film noir: at least eight feature films, including “Total Recall,” “Minority Report,” “A Scanner Darkly,” and, most memorably, Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner,”

Thanks to Nelson for the post

Edward James Olmos: "Blade Runner Failed Because of Harrison Ford"

Wow, I was reading through SFSignal's blog when I came across a link to this bomb shell.

Kevin Kelly writes in Cinematical:

"I had the lucky fortune to attend a Battlestar Galactica event in Los Angeles tonight, but the one explosive shell to come out of it was Edward James Olmos really putting the screws to Harrison Ford over Blade Runner. According to Olmos 'Blade Runner was supposed to have sequels.' Olmos tossed down the gauntlet and then did the fandango on top of it by telling us all, 'Blade Runner failed because of Harrison Ford.' He went on to explain that since Harrison's fans had seen him in the Star Wars movies, and as Indiana Jones, they'd come to expect a certain type of performance from him. When they saw him in Blade Runner in a role that 'required him to think a lot, his fans threw up all over it.' "

click here to go to the Cinematical link