
I’m told I’m the only US journalist who passed.) Still, there are a few confirmed details: Thirty years after audiences left Deckard bruised and battered in 2019 Los Angeles, he has disappeared, and Gosling’s LAPD officer is on the hunt ( possibly at the behest of his boss, played by Robin Wright, though no one involved with the movie will say for sure). (Even negotiating to get onto the set required more back-and-forth than a Voight-Kampff test. Why K doesn’t just use the front door isn’t exactly clear, as the plot of Blade Runner 2049 is guarded with the kind of intensity usually reserved for Star Wars reshoots. You People Wouldn’t Believe the Type Design in Blade Runner What Better Way for the Marines to Prepare for Wars Than With Sci-Fi?

'Sci-Fi', Dystopia and Hope in the Trump Era: A Fiction Roundtable But every time Gosling smashes into the room, it terrifies the pooch, who scrambles out of frame before Denis Villeneuve, the film’s 49-year-old French-Canadian director, can call, “Cut!” In today’s scene, Deckard is being pursued by a special agent named K (Ryan Gosling), who bursts methodically-perhaps even robotically?-through Deckard’s marble wall like a slimmer, grimmer Kool-Aid Man. The 75-year-old actor has endured several on-the-job injuries over the years-this is a guy who had a chunk of the Millennium Falcon fall on his leg-but he shows little sign of wear as he sprints through Deckard’s almost tomblike condo, shoulders pumping vigorously and a wolfish dog galloping by his side. For the first time in more than three decades, Ford is reprising his role as Rick Deckard, the piano-plinking, hard-drinking cop from Ridley Scott’s 1982 Blade Runner.

It’s a fall morning in 2016, and on a cavernous soundstage in Budapest, Harrison Ford-wearing a gray button-down shirt, dark jeans, and a Ford-tough grimace-is shooting a crucial encounter in Blade Runner 2049.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: Skyscrapers engulfed in a sickly yellow haze Elvis Presley performing on the stage of a decadent art-deco nightclub water rippling across the windows of a flying car, only to vanish-like tears in rain.Īnd I’ve seen the original blade runner himself set off running again … and again … and again.
