Original Blade Runner screenwriter Hampton Fancher will see his screenplay for a proposed Blade Runner 2 rewritten by Michael Green, whose work includes Green Lantern and a few episodes of “Smallville” and “Heroes” before he rewrote Robopocalypse, which Steven Spielberg was going to direct as his next film until he put it off indefinitely.
The news comes via a press release from Alcon Entertainment, which notes Fancher’s original story/screenplay is set some years after the first film concluded as they are partnering with Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin and director Ridley Scott to produce Blade Runner theatrical sequels and prequels and potential television and interactive productions.
In addition to this news, The Wrap reports Scott is courting Harrison Ford to return for the sequel as Deckard, but I’m not sure how that will work considering Scott has said Deckard is a Replicant, which would suggest he wouldn’t age. Then, of course, Ford could play a character in which he served as the model for that particular Replicant and maybe the story will revolve around that idea in some way.
Here’s an idea, maybe the reason Deckard didn’t really know he was a Replicant is because the real Deckard is actually asleep in a chamber of some sort and his Replicant self serves as a surrogate of sorts, you know, like that 2009 film starring Bruce Willis called Surrogates.
Following the events of the first film, some years into the future, Deckard is required to wake-up (or perhaps the world is in such decay his machine shuts down) out of some sort of hyperbaric chamber. He’s older, but still has his wits about him. He’s slightly disoriented and must come to terms with the world around him and find out what exactly has happened and why he’s woken up. I don’t know… I’m just spit-balling here.
