Producers talk Blade Runner sequel/prequel
The other day we reported, much to the dismay of fans, that Alcon Entertainment was attempting to acquire the rights to create more films based upon Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (here). Io9 was able to speak the Producers behind the project to get an idea of just what they’re planning. “We don’t know, we just don’t know yet. When we know, we’ll let you know. We don’t know yet it’s too early. The only way to answer that is to say that we will have a process where we will hear hear different ideas from writers or from potential directors who we will bring in, in combination with the writers, before determining. We could be open to either a prequel or a sequel,” Producers Andrew Kosove, Broderick Johnson and Bud Yorkin said.
Many regard Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner has one of the greatest films in Science Fiction, and many of those fans feel the film would be impossible to follow-up. At least with a worthy sequel. The reason the Producers had acquired the rights was because of how great the film is, and that “the universe that has been created here is one that’s full of ideas and possibilities”. One of the biggest questions is whether or not Ridley Scott would return to direct. After all, the director had been away from the Alien universe since 1979, and is just now returning with Prometheus, which has some connection to his classic film. However, Producer Andrew Kosove wouldn’t reveal whether or not Scott would be involved.  ”I’m going to answer it very briefly — we won’t say if we’ve reached out to Ridley Scott or not, but what we will say is that Ridley Scott’s blessing to what we’re doing is very important to Alcon,” he said.
The biggest concern amongst the fan-base is that a sequel or prequel could “ruin” the original film. But Andrew Kosove more or less brushes off that concern. “This may work, or it may not work. We may make this movie, but in truth it may never get made,” he said. Kosove does say the film won’t be taken lightly, and that hard work will be put into the film. “But what I can tell you for certain today is that we will not go about this process in some form of large group think where 15 executives are going to sit around a table micromanaging the creative talent. Broderick and I will meet with writers and directors and we will figure out what direction we want to go and what story we believe in,” he said.
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