He’s long been attached to the project, but now it has been confirmed that Ryan Gosling is set to star opposite Harrison Ford in a sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.
Speaking with Collider, Gosling finally confirmed he will appear in Blade Runner 2, which is being directed by Denis Villeneuve (Sicario) and will feature the glorious photography of cinematographer Roger Deakins, the main two reasons that he decided to join the project. Check out a video of Gosling confirming that Blade Runner 2 will be his next movie at the end of the link above.
Meanwhile, Mtime have revealed that producer Ridley Scott has confirmed just what we might see in the opening moments of the movie sequel. Scott was speaking at the AFI Film Festival in Los Angeles.
We decided to start the film off with the original starting block of the original film. We always loved the idea of a dystopian universe, and we start off at what I describe as a ‘factory farm’ – what would be a flat land with farming. Wyoming. Flat, not rolling – you can see for 20 miles. No fences, just plowed, dry dirt. Turn around and you see a massive tree, just dead, but the tree is being supported and kept alive by wires that are holding the tree up. It’s a bit like Grapes of Wrath, there’s dust, and the tree is still standing. By that tree is a traditional, Grapes of Wrath-type white cottage with a porch. Behind it at a distance of two miles, in the twilight, is this massive combine harvester that’s fertilizing this ground. You’ve got 16 Klieg lights on the front, and this combine is four times the size of this cottage. And now a spinner [a flying car] comes flying in, creating dust. Of course, traditionally chased by a dog that barks, the doors open, a guy gets out and there you’ve got Rick Deckard. He walks in the cottage, opens the door, sits down, smells stew, sits down and waits for the guy to pull up to the house to arrive. The guy’s seen him, so the guy pulls the combine behind the cottage and it towers three stories above it, and the man climbs down from a ladder – a big man. He steps onto the balcony and he goes to Harrison’s side. The cottage actually [creaks]; this guy’s got to be 350 pounds. I’m not going to say anything else – you’ll have to go see the movie.
Blade Runner 2 will release in 2017.
