Blade Runner 2049 Announcement

The sequel to the classic Ridley Scott is unveiled with sumptuous first images of the encounter between the old and the new cop of elite.

It is undoubtedly the most anticipated and dreaded blockbuster of the fall of 2017. Blade Runner 2049, whose filming ended around Budapest a few weeks ago, unveils for the first time a glimpse of his universe with This first "teaser" trailer of one minute and forty seconds.
Warner reveals the film's official synopsis: "Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD officer K (Ryan Gosling), unravels a long-buried secret that has the potential Plunge into chaos the last vestiges of society. The discovery of K led him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner of the LAPD missing for thirty years. "
At the sight of the superb first images, made by Denis Villeneuve with the help of its chief operator Roger Deakins (already his accomplice on Prisoners and Sicario), K found Deckard. And obviously, in 2049, the climatic conditions over California deteriorated even more than in 2019, when the first Blade Runner was in action.
Villeneuve took care in any case to resume scrupulously the aesthetic data of the original film, while the synopsis communicated by Warner confirms that Deckard will be only a secondary character in the plot. For the latecomers: in the masterpiece of Ridley Scott, released in the room in an almost general indifference in 1982, Harrison Ford embodied Rick Deckard, a cop disillusioned elite, hunter androids decided to extend their lifespan . Inspired freely of a news of Philip K. Dick and very influenced by the plates of Moebius,

Blade Runner marked, after Alien, a new master stroke for Ridley Scott. And a decisive date in science fiction.


Turning Harassing
 Despite his failure in theaters because of the opacity of his script and an atmospheric rhythm judged by some razor at the time, the film experienced a second youth in video and acquired a phenomenal cult status in the following years,

Of his TV reruns. Scott's vision of a nocturnal and rainy retro-futuristic Los Angeles would disrupt generations of viewers and exert an overwhelming visual influence on a plethora of anticipatory movies that is still felt today. Considered an untouchable classic, Blade Runner now enjoys a sufficiently large fan base, from the West to Japan, so that the studio Warner has considered reliable the project of a suite to the colossal means (the budget has probably exceeded The $ 150 million).

For Denis Villeneuve, who has already told us how filming was harassing, the challenge is enormous. The Canadian will now spend several months of post-production on Blade Runner 2049, until the latter's release on October 4, 2017.