In between the wings and beer of the weekend festivities, Twitch Film dropped a bombshell with one of the most interesting news stories of 2012 so far: the report claims that Harrison Ford was in talks to return as Rick Deckard in the currently in-development new Blade Runner film directed by Ridley Scott, who directed the iconic sci-fi masterpiece original back in 1982. The project definitely isn’t a remake of Blade Runner, but it’s not known if it’s a sequel, prequel, or a story just in the same universe (like Scott’s upcoming Prometheus, which is set in the Alien universe — although Scott insists it isn’t an Alien film). Speculation ran rampant on how an older Ford would factor in the new movie.
But the rumor was just that… a rumor. Deadline reports straight from one of the producers’ mouths that Ford is not in talks for the movie. Andrew Kosove, speaking for his fellow producers, denies Ford’s involvement, clearly stating, “It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner. To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story, figure out the direction we’re going to take the movie and find a writer to work on it. The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment.”
So does that completely rule out Ford’s involvement? Kosove leaves the door open, but seems pretty upfront that the new movie’s storyline won’t have much to do with Rick Deckard, explaining on the topic of Ford returning, “In advance of knowing what we’re going to do, I supposed you could say yes, he could. But I think it is quite unlikely.”
Despite how awesome Harrison Ford is in the original, I think this is good news. Scott seems to be on a very intriguing path of creating new stories in universes he previously set films in, without the obvious rehashing of the basic sequel. This hasn’t been done much in the past, and considering how rich these universes are there is definitely the potential of dozens of fascinating films being made that aren’t easy sequels.
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