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Veteran scribe Michael Green ("Green Lantern") is moving from superheroes to replicants, as he's in negotiations to write the sequel to "Blade Runner" for Alcon Entertainment and director Ridley Scott's production company Scott Free, an individual familiar with the Warner Bros. project has told TheWrap.

www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/...n-write-blade-runner-wb-alcon-exclusive-94746

Alcon's PR

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.

I think this is going to be a bad movie.

 

[jtb]

no lindelof no sale

 

[Vulcano's assistant]

The stills from the blu-ray will look good regardless I suppose.

 

[Jokergrin]

Veteran writer of Green Lantern?

does not compute

 

[hal9001]

Oh dear god no. No.

 

[Error]

Looks like it's going to be a sequel, I didn't get the impression that there was much room for a sequel after the ending of Blade Runner.

 

[Protein]

 

[Courage]

Green Lantern is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

 

[SpudBud]

Why even bother then.

 

[WedgeX]

The script was the worse part about Green Lantern. This does not bode well.

 

[Messypandas]

Ridley must be stopped

 

[Illithid Dude]

At least it's better then Lindeloff.

 

[Outrage247]

Welp I'm off this bandwagon.

 

[vagabondarts]

DOA. Unbelievable. Ridley, think about what you are doing

 

[Discotheque]

lmao ridley scott. counselor sounds promising as fuck though. but yeah i'm staying far away from any sci-fi he makes from here on out.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

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