'Blade Runner' sequel has a writer


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LOS ANGELES, CA, MAY 31, 2013, 3:30 pm, EST ? Writer Michael Green is in negotiations to do a rewrite of Alcon Entertainment?s ?Blade Runner? sequel penned by Hampton Fancher (?Blade Runner,? ?The Minus Man,? ?The Mighty Quinn?) and to be directed by Ridley Scott. Fancher?s original story/screenplay is set some years after the first film concluded.

Alcon co-founders and co-Chief Executive Officers Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove will produce with Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin, along with Ridley Scott. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO?s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.

Green recently completed rewrites on ?Robopocalypse? and Warners Bros.' ?Gods and Kings.?

Alcon and Yorkin previously announced that they are partnering to produce ?Blade Runner? theatrical sequels and prequels, in addition to all television and interactive productions.

The original film, which has been singled out as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ?culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.? The film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry in 1993 and is frequently taught in university courses. In 2007, it was named the 2nd most visually influential film of all time by the Visual Effects Society.

Released by Warner Bros. almost 30 years ago, ?Blade Runner? was adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples from Philip K. Dick?s groundbreaking novel ?Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?? and directed by Scott following his landmark ?Alien.? The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction). Following the filming of ?Blade Runner,? the first of Philip K. Dick?s works to be adapted into a film, many other of Dick?s works were likewise adapted, including ?Total Recall,? ?A Scanner Darkly,? ?Minority Report,? ?Paycheck,? and the recent ?The Adjustment Bureau,? among others.

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The original film, which has been singled out as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications, was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ?culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.?

This is the reason they need to leave the franchise the hell alone.

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This is the reason they need to leave the franchise the hell alone.

Not much of a franchise if you don't evolve it. One of my favs of all time. They just need to take care and do it justice. I'm talking Lord of the Rings quality, not Dungeons & Dragons or Saturday afternoon B-scifi quality.

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Not much of a franchise if you don't evolve it. One of my favs of all time. They just need to take care and do it justice. I'm talking Lord of the Rings quality, not Dungeons & Dragons or Saturday afternoon B-scifi quality.

For every Lord of the Rings you have a Star Wars.

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