{"id":2559,"date":"2014-05-15T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/05\/15\/harrison-ford-offered-role-in-blade-runner-sequel\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T19:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T19:29:00","slug":"harrison-ford-offered-role-in-blade-runner-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderbird.tv\/2014\/05\/15\/harrison-ford-offered-role-in-blade-runner-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford Offered Role in \u2018Blade Runner\u2019 Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dave McNary \/ Variety<\/em><\/p>\n

Alcon\u00a0Entertainment has an offer out to\u00a0Harrison Ford\u00a0to reprise his role as Rick Deckard in its sequel to \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d to be directed by the original\u2019s helmer,\u00a0Ridley Scott.<\/p>\n

Hampton Fancher, co-writer of the screenplay of the iconic 1982 sci-fi film, and Michael Green are the screenwriters. The story in the sequel is being kept under wraps other than being set several decades after the conclusion of the original \u2014 which took place in a dystopian 2019 Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Alcon has been working on the project for over three years, since announcing in early 2011 that it had secured film, TV and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels.<\/p>\n

In August 2011, Scott committed to direct.\u00a0Green came on board\u00a0to work with Fancher a year ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that Hampton Fancher and Michael Green have crafted with Ridley Scott an extraordinary sequel to one of the greatest films of all time,\u201d said Alcon toppers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson. \u201cWe would be honored, and we are hopeful, that Harrison will be part of our project.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unusual for\u00a0producers\u00a0to make a public offer to a high-profile actor. There was no immediate response from representatives for Ford, who is set to reprise his Han Solo role in Disney\u2019s \u201cStar Wars Episode VII.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the original \u201cBlade Runner,\u201d Rutger Hauer played the leader of a group of escaped \u201creplicants\u201d \u2014 genetically engineered androids used for work on Earth\u2019s off-world colonies \u2014 who are hiding out in a 2019 version of Los Angeles. Ford\u2019s Rick Deckard character is a \u201cblade runner,\u201d a police officer who kills replicants when necessary.<\/p>\n

The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993.<\/p>\n

The 2011 deal with producer Bud Yorkin gave Alcon the film, TV and ancillary franchise rights for \u201cBlade Runner\u201d prequels and sequels. Yorkin will be a producer on the sequel with Kosove and Johnson and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, the CEOs of Thunderbird Films, will exec produce.<\/p>\n

Fancher and David Peoples adapted \u201cBlade Runner\u201d from\u00a0Philip K. Dick\u2019s novel \u201cDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott directed in his third film following \u201cThe Duelists\u201d and \u201cAlien.\u201d The film was nominated for\u00a0 Academy Awards for visual effects and art direction.<\/p>\n

Alcon fully finances its films and has an output deal with Warner Bros., which distributed the original \u201cBlade Runner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBlade Runner\u201d was the first of Dick\u2019s works to be adapted into a film by Hollywood, setting the stage for \u201cTotal Recall,\u201d \u201cA Scanner Darkly,\u201d \u201cMinority Report,\u201d \u201cPaycheck\u201d and \u201cThe Adjustment Bureau.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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