HARRISON FORD RETURNS FOR BLADE RUNNER 2
About a year ago, production company Alcon Entertainment were hoping to get Harrison Ford to feature in the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, and since it takes grumpy ol’ Harrison Ford a long time to decide whether it’s worth getting up off the couch to make a movie when it’s already 5.30 in the afternoon goddarnit, he’s finally made up his mind. Rick Deckard will return.
Ridley Scott will be executive producer of the film, with Dennis Villeneuve, director of Prisoners and Enemy, taking charge of the project instead. On the current schedule, production will begin sometime this summer.
Ford certainly enjoys returning to his most famous characters after a long absence. First Indiana Jones, then Han Solo and now this. Those of you still holding out for a Witness sequel, keep holding on.
CARRY ON IGNORING THE ALIEN MOVIES AFTER ALIENS
Left: Alien properties after Aliens, Right: Audiences
And speaking of Ridley Scott movies coming back into the limelight, it also was revealed this week that Neill Blomkamp will be directing a sequel in the Alien franchise, and in an interview with Sky News, the direction he’d be taking the film became a little clearer. His film, which Sigourney Weaver will be returning for, will carry on only from James Cameron’s Aliens, ignoring the later Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection. Blomkamp also talked about the tone his film would be striving for, describing it as “a Freudian nightmare”.
The status of Prometheus remains unnervingly unmentioned though, leaving the possibility that just when you think you’re safe in the escape pod of Prometheus not being a thing and are about to put yourself in stasis, Prometheus unfurls itself and you have to try and blow it out the air lock without it realising it knows you’re there.
RIP Leonard Nimoy
Sadly as you’re no doubt aware by now, it emerged today that Leonard Nimoy died today at the age of 83. Nimoy had died in his home after end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an affliction of the lungs.
In addition to famously starring as Spock in the original Star Trek series in the 1960s and the series of films that followed it, Nimoy also featured in a couple of seasons of the original Mission Impossible television series, and was a cast member in the 1978 Invasion of the Body Snatchers. In later years, he was a prominent feature on sci-fi show Fringe and even reprised his role as Mr. Spock in the Star Trek film reboot. Though he famously titled his autobiography I’m Not Spock, he was gracious about his most prominent role, even signing off tweets with the phrase “Live long and prosper”. He was a director, a writer, a poet and Galvatron and he will be missed. RIP Leonard Nimoy. The cosmic ballet goes on.
