‘Blade Runner’ fans can look forward to closure
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Mi Gente, LOS ANGELES: Was Harrison Ford’s Officer Rick Deckard a human or a Replicant robot in 1982’s Blade Runner?
That is the question that fans of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller have been pondering for 35 years and now in a long-awaited sequel, that question is explored further.
Out in theatres on Oct 6, Blade Runner 2049 takes place 30 years after the original film, when human-like robots called Replicants were hunted by police officers called “blade runners” in a dystopian Los Angeles.
In the new film from Time Warner Inc’s Warner Bros, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling) hunts illegal Replicants hiding on a decaying Earth and he stumbles across something that can disrupt the current strained co-existence between humans and Replicants.
“It’s an existential story,” director Denis Villeneuve said. “It says a lot about reality. It says a lot about our relationship with broken dreams. It says things about as human beings we are programmed by our genetic background
Reuters and our education, and that we are like trapped by that background and it’s very difficult for us to get free out of it.”
Before journalists saw Blade Runner 2049 at advance press screenings, they were read a note from Villeneuve urging not give away any key plot points.
What is known is that an older, rugged Ford reprises his role as Officer Deckard.
The actor called the film an “experiential opportunity” for audiences to engage in the philosophical rhetoric. Reuters