{"id":17174,"date":"2011-11-04T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T23:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=17174"},"modified":"2021-04-22T16:12:22","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T20:12:22","slug":"ridley-scott-states-new-blade-runner-film-liable-to-be-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/04\/ridley-scott-states-new-blade-runner-film-liable-to-be-a-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott States New BLADE RUNNER Film &#8220;Liable To Be A Sequel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RidleyScott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16406\" title=\"RidleyScott\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RidleyScott.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RidleyScott.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/RidleyScott-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>When it was announced this past August that Ridley Scott would directing a new film set in the same universe of his groundbreaking classic <strong>Blade Runner<\/strong>, the big question seemed to be whether that story would be a sequel or a prequel. Scott has given us an answer to that question today in an interview with the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200727035617\/https:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2011\/11\/04\/ridley-scott-says-he%E2%80%99ll-direct-%E2%80%98blade-runner%E2%80%99-sequel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> in which he states the film is &#8220;\u201cliable to be a sequel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Scott sounds like he is pretty far along already with the development of a story for the film stating, &#8220;I think I\u2019m close to finding a writer that might be able to help me deliver&#8230; We\u2019re quite a long way in, actually.&#8221; Whether that writer is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/27\/is-scott-z-burns-writing-ridley-scott%e2%80%99s-new-blade-runner-movie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rumored<\/a> Scott Z Burns or not still remains to be seen.<\/p>\n<p>With Scott finishing up his &#8220;maybe-it&#8217;s-an-<strong>Alien<\/strong>-prequel-maybe-it&#8217;s-not&#8221; film <strong>Prometheus<\/strong> for next summer, it remains to be seen if this Blade Runner film will be his next project or not. The lack of a scriptwriter makes me think that Scott is probably a year off from rolling cameras on the film at the very least, which fits right in with producer Andrew Kosove&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/19\/producer-states-no-blade-runner-film-before-2014-probably-no-harrison-ford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimate<\/a> that the film wouldn&#8217;t get into production until 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Ridley&#8217;s return to BLADE RUNNER will pick up after the original story&#8217;s end.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/11\/04\/ridley-scott-states-new-blade-runner-film-liable-to-be-a-sequel\/\" title=\"Ridley Scott States New BLADE RUNNER Film &#8220;Liable To Be A Sequel&#8221;\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[857,416],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-blade-runner","8":"tag-ridley-scott"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}