Blade Runner 2049 trailer

Looks, sounds and feels exactly like Blade Runner......so why wait all these years to make a (probably boring, if the Director is anything to go by), sequel?


Plus, I thought you already started a thread for this a couple of months ago?

 

I´ve heard this sequel has a budget of almost US$200 million.
For an ´R´ rated movie - how are they going to make a profit on that....and add to this maybe another US$100-150 million advertising and marketing.
=
US$500 milion to at least break even.


Bomb.
See ya.

 

I know I started a thread months ago, but how can I find it now without the search button? Yeah, the box office prognostications are not very optimistic. Keep in mind that even the original bombed miserably back in 1982. Why make a sequel of non-commercial film? Yeah, it has its followers, but that doesn't mean your average moviegoer will not think this is another 'Ghost in the Shell' with less action.

 

I re-watched the original last night and even though it still looks amazing even now....I still see it as a 'cult classic'

 

New trailer

 

Was it the version where Ridley added footage of the unicorn from Legend? The guy is senile. Adding extra crap to support the 'Deckards a replicant' shit that makes no sense.

 

I admit, the original is visually stunning even by TODAY'S standards. It's always impressed me more than the story itself.

 

Scott created a believable future. I remember before the movie was released I devoured all the Starlog articles about the making of the film and all the work Scott and his team put into making every little detail on the sets to look functional and real. When I finally watched the film I was disappointed it wasn't as great as I was expecting, but the look, the visuals, the music did transported me to that future. This new film trailer doesn't look groundbreaking at all. Looks too 'mundane' in comparison.

 

While on the topic of Scott, Alien is also visually stunning even today.

 

Alien is a timeless classic. The only thing that looks dated are the computer graphics of 'Mother'. However it is to Ridley Scott's credit that he elevated what was going to be originally a rip-off B horror movie into a truly terrifying marvelous scifi film. I mean the writer who wrote the original concept, Dan O'Bannon, was still butt-hurt that his buddy John Carpenter got all the credit for their first film 'Dark Star' that he co-wrote, co-starred and co-directed with John Carpenter and propelled Carpenter to a successful film career. O'Bannon wanted to come up with his own 'Halloween' and make it big in Hollywood like Carpenter. He was inspired by a nightmare he had one night after he was browsing the HR Giger artbook 'Necronomicon' and dream that one of the paintings creature was chasing him in a dark spaceship hallway. That was his spark of genius because the rest he wrote was basically a rip-off plot taken directly from 'It The Terror from Beyond Space' with some elements of the italian stinker 'Terror in Space" aka "Planet of Vampires". While producer Walter Hill (The Warriors) and Ronald Shusett hammered O'Bannon's screenplay and made it more believable and more scary, you still can see a lot of similarities with those two films in the final released cut. O'Bannon wanted very bad to direct the film, but both the studio & the producers didn't want to give such a big job to an unproven guy, so they hired Scott who was fresh from glowing reviews for 'The Duelists', his first film. Again, Scott not only brought on board HR Giger to work on the Alien design, but also brought Carlo Rambaldi for the animatronic head and chestburster, Heavy Metal magazine legendary painter & illutrator Chris Foss & Moebius. The only thing Scott couldn't get was Japanese composer Isao Tomita to do the soundtrack as 20th Century Fox stepped in and decided they didn't want to risk on an unproven (in films) composer like Tomita and commissioned the job to Academy award winner Jerry Goldsmith. At the end Scott was happy with Goldsmith score. Scott always said that the look of the film was inspired by '2001: A Space Odyssey' and he wanted to create something that could look homogeneous to Stanley Kubrick's look of the future.

 

Pretty informative. Thanks for sharing that story.

 

Yeah I mean who knew how to Google 'Alien' and read about its development online?

 

Go ahead and do a Google if you can find all that info in a single website. I go by my knowledge of reading all the articles from 1979 issues of Cinefantastique, Starlog, Fantastic Films and other genre's magazines that religiously reported on that film development. Keep in mind that 'ALIEN' came shortly after the scifi boom created by 'Star Wars' and 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' in 1977 and the only major scifi film released after that was 'Superman: the Movie'. The only in production scifi film was 'Alien' whose initial low budget was increased to satisfy audiences thirst for big budget scifi spectacle. So this film got a LOT of hype for over a year before it was finally released. I remember the joke Steven Spielberg made when 'Alien' was finally released and was shocking audiences left and right: 'After all the good will me and George (Lucas) created for extraterrestrial life now comes Ridley and destroyed everything!'

 

You never even mentioned Boldjan Balejio (or whatever the cunt's name was) was first spotted by the casting director drinking in a West London pub one night in 1978...him being the guy who played the Xenomorph...

 

And why should I have to mention that? I wasn't trying to give an in-depth behind-the-scenes recount on the making of 'Alien'. After all this thread is about 'Blade Runner 2049'. But just to please you here is a link of what you pointed out (with excerpts from Cinefantastique ) plus Bolaji Badejo's screen test:

Bolaji Badejo: the man who played Alien - CNN.com

 

Trivia: Did you know that author Phillip K. Dick once stated that "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" which was the basis for 'Blade Runner', 'The Minority Report' and 'We Can Remember it for you Wholesale' (Total Recall) were set within the SAME future/universe/timeline meaning that Rick Deckard could have crossed paths with Douglas Quaid and John Anderton?

Ridley Scott with Phillip K. Dick



in a creepy turn of events a robot is designed with Dick's resemblance

 

Blade Runner. To this day I hate that name. I still remember as a child trapped in a theater watching that boring farce of a film. Had I been an adult I would have walked out on it. My hatred for this franchise runs deep because of that. So deep that I root for the sequel's failure, and I actually found joy when the trailer seemed to hint at that probability.

 

Hardly a 'franchise' though is it?
One movie and one soon-to-be-released sequel, 35 years later....

 

And all based on a popular respected novel I thought.

 

The first reviews are in and 'Blade Runner 2049' is getting crazy mad glowing reviews! Variety called it 'an all time scifi great film', some are calling it better than the original, out of 45 reviews only one was rotten and currently stands at 98% fresh on RT.

However...something did worried me about the reviews: that the movie moves at a very slow pace. And at a running time of 2 hours 44 minutes that could be the kiss of death at the box office with today's short-attention span audiences.

 

Nice

 

Are you going to watch it?

 

Blade Runner 2049 has a 94% score on RT.

 

Amazing how many blind, die-hard Blade Runner obsessed fans there are in the world...

 

Alien is superb.

Of course the computer screen are very outdated...but they weren't to know at the time how things would change in that regard.

 

Almost every review of Blade Runner 2049 is titled or focuses on: ´Visually stunning´, ´Amazing CGI´, ´Breathtaking effects´.
Quelle surprise.

Oh, and this hysterical ´gem´ from some reviwer:
´It's not often you walk out of a cinema in tears of joy forming but Blade Runner 2049 had that effect as a longtime fan of the original. It´s like sci-fi porn´

 

LOL

 

I mean, I hope the overall movie does live up to its visual with story and acting....but you know, calm down guys....

This kind of adulation for a movie reminds me exactly how they were all wetting their pants over ´The Dark Knight´ in the days leading up to its release.