1982 saw the release of Scott’s baroque sci-fi neo-noir, Blade Runner, starring Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard. It was moderately an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The movie was set in 2019 (three years ago now) and concerned detective Deckard, who was a Blade Runner, in-universe slang for someone who was tasked with hunting down replicates, which are strong androids made for harmful labor conditions that were manufactured on the cellular level. Replicants were, according to the Tyrell corporation who made them, “More human than human.” Deckard, hunting down five rogue replicants on earth, doesn’t know he himself is one until the end of the film.
Decades would pass before 2017 saw the release of Blade Runner 2049, a set-thirty-years-later sequel to the first movie featuring Ryan Gosling and a returning Ford. The film featured Gosling as a replicant cop hunting down Deckard, whom he discovers is the first replicant to have fathered an actual child. The rest of the film involves Gosling trying to reunite the pair. With all that in mind, it’s fair to guess that Blade Runner 2099 will join its predecessors in exploring the human condition through a futuristic lens.
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Source: Variety
