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Blade Runner licence resurrected

jp-30jp-30
edited March 2011 in General Chat
http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/alcon-plotting-blade-runner-prequels-and-sequels/
Alcon is negotiating to secure the rights from producer-director Bud Yorkin, who will serve as producer on “Blade Runner” along with Kosove and Johnson. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers.

Alcon’s franchise rights would be all-inclusive, but exclude rights to remake the original. The Company, however, may produce projects based on situations introduced in the original film. The project would be distributed domestically by Warner Bros. International rights are yet to be determined.

Johnson and Kosove stated: “We are honored and excited to be in business with Bud Yorkin. This is a major acquisition for our company, and a personal favorite film for both of us. We recognize the responsibility we have to do justice to the memory of the original with any prequel or sequel we produce. We have long-term goals for the franchise, and are exploring multi-platform concepts, not just limiting ourselves to one medium only.”

Love the movie. Love the Westwood adventure game.

It's a good universe for setting more stories across several mediums. Not going to be under Universal Pictures though, by the looks. So not sure if there's a chance of a future Telltale Blade Runner series - I wonder what the terms of the Universal Licence are when it comes to other movie franchises...

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  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited March 2011
    I think I posted this in the whatevers on your mind thread. Anyway, my thoughts are this-

    Blade Runner doesn't need a prequel, sequel, threequel, dayquil, nightquil, or any other QUIL! MY MOUTH IS FOAMING. Anyway.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited March 2011
    Holy monkey bladders, is the adventure game made by Westwood??? I know it had a great reputation for being really really good, but I never realized it's by Westwood. I never thought about checking it out.

    I really need to get this game. I wish EA gets on GOG.com soon, so we can buy it from there. I assume the game is EA's property still, because Westwood's IPs are with them?
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited March 2011
    Worst idea ever. That movie isn't about technology or androids, it's about the heart and what makes a human a human... Or what dehumanizes him. You can't make a sequel to it, not with the master, Philip K Dick, dead.
  • StarEyeStarEye
    edited March 2011
    I thought Blade Runner was a series books, and the story for the film was one of these?
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited March 2011
    Blade Runner is based on "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K Dick. The game is based on the movie. The book is a masterpiece of science fiction. The books that came after were written by a friend of Dick's after he had passed away, but there really is only one DADoES.
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited March 2011
    When was it set? 2019?

    Heh.
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited March 2011
    StarEye wrote: »
    Holy monkey bladders, is the adventure game made by Westwood??? I know it had a great reputation for being really really good, but I never realized it's by Westwood. I never thought about checking it out.

    You might like AG's review:

    http://www.adventuregamers.com/article/display.php?id=14
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited March 2011
    Anybody curious about how the Blade Runner universe could be expanded, I suggest checking out the show Total Recall 2070: http://www.hulu.com/total-recall-2070

    It's a little bit of a silly show, but it takes itself pretty seriously and it has an interesting overall plot that's inspired more by Blade Runner than Total Recall. I enjoyed it.
  • PimPamPetPimPamPet
    edited March 2011
    Way to go Hollywood. Go ahead and ruin this franchise for me as well.
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited March 2011
    I will reserve judgement until I actually see what they're going to do
  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited March 2011
    I have really mixed feelings about a remake of the original movie... That world was so perfect.
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited March 2011
    *BEEP* me!? Why not just remake Star Wars or Indiana Jones while we're at it!? Dumbest idea ever, as bad as remaking Planet of the Apes...did anyone ANYONE want to see that? It sucked!

    Even if this movie is decent, their will always be the original, which is a CLASSIC and a great, terrific, wonderful movie which doesn't need a remake...
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited March 2011
    doodo! wrote: »
    Even if this movie is decent, their will always be the original, which is a CLASSIC and a great, terrific, wonderful movie which doesn't need a remake...

    That's why they aren't remaking it. That's the one thing they can't do, according to the quote jp-30 posted. If it were a remake I'd be complaining too.

    Maybe I'm just a bit biased because, as I mentioned earlier, I've already watched and enjoyed a television series based in the Blade Runner universe (or a very close approximation thereof), but I think it's a bit too early to cry that they're ruining the series. It's a big enough universe for them to come up with a new story that doesn't ruin the original story's beautiful ambiguity. If they do ruin it I'll complain right along with you.
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited March 2011
    Alcon’s franchise rights would be all-inclusive, but exclude rights to remake the original.

    Right then.

    Edit: ninja'd.
  • LuigiHannLuigiHann
    edited March 2011
    To be fair, the word "remake" does really jump out in that sentence. I had to read it twice myself
  • RetroVortexRetroVortex
    edited March 2011
    I'm glad that there is enough respect for the original classic, that no remake is planned, (look at all the horrid remakes recently. Its a mokery to the whole industry really).
    I think this sort of thing can work though. The settings has a huge amount of untapped potential still there.

    Hopefully they can do good with the licence.
    If not then real fans would probably just ignore it anyway...
  • doodo!doodo!
    edited March 2011
    I don't know....
    It's good it's not a remake though. I like that much better.

    With respect to Tron it was a ok movie, set as a example, but it wasn't that good of a sequel. Tron Legacy...
  • jmmjmm
    edited March 2011
    I have a bad feeling about this.
    Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan but I fail to see the need of another story.

    A prequel: Why? To learn about the skinjobs' origin? about the deteriorated world? about Deckard's backstory? No, No and no.
    A parallel story (like the one in the game)?: It would stretch too thin the "universe" (LA, November 2019)
    A Sequel? What for? What to tell?
    Tyrell is dead, most of the scientists involved are dead, Deckard is a skinjob, it got away with Rachel
    .
  • CubeCube
    edited March 2011
    You know i saw that movie for the first time after years of wanting to see it because everything seems to Rip off blade runnners art style. SO it came on HDnet movie channel last week and I Tivoed it. The final cut version

    So Like 2 of my favorite movies a games Armitage the 3rd and snatcher. Said to be pretty much animated rips on blade runner.

    I have to saw I was not that impressed with it. Armitage the OVA series and even the chopped down film version poly matrix. Takes waht blade runner did and does it better... And so does snatcher. Also the female lead in armitage is a way more interesting character and I cant say why with out spoiling the movie.

    I did not even get a real explanation of how a replicant functions is it all Bio clone parts or Robots? it never really said, You would think there would be more tense with these things running around looking like humans but he knows who they are there are no hidden ones and the story is just really laid back and slow. not much mystery or detective work either every one he needed to catch seem to fall right into his hands with out him doing much or just step right up in front of his face almost from out of no where.

    and what is up with the part with the snake where there is no mouth sync to what is being said at all or what is going on when he grabs the dudes tie? it is like not even tried to cover the huge mistake in editing.

    So ya good but overrated movie sweet art and setting


    But ya.. I would rather see a new snatcher or Amritage the 3rd game.... Amrtiage never had a game ever it could be part action part Adventure.

    armitage_poly_matrix.jpg


    armitage-ii.jpg

    And the only thing I got from the blade runner game that I remember is that it was using voxels and not ploygons for rendering and did not work with GPU's at all adn it made me feel like I wasted Cash on making a twin 3dfx voodoo 2 machine upgrade.
  • Secret FawfulSecret Fawful
    edited March 2011
    http://www.movieweb.com/news/christopher-nolan-wanted-for-blade-runner-sequel-or-prequel

    Interesting. I'm still mad.
  • DAISHIDAISHI
    edited March 2011
    Cube wrote: »
    You know i saw that movie for the first time after years of wanting to see it because everything seems to Rip off blade runnners art style. SO it came on HDnet movie channel last week and I Tivoed it. The final cut version

    So Like 2 of my favorite movies a games Armitage the 3rd and snatcher. Said to be pretty much animated rips on blade runner.

    I have to saw I was not that impressed with it. Armitage the OVA series and even the chopped down film version poly matrix. Takes waht blade runner did and does it better... And so does snatcher. Also the female lead in armitage is a way more interesting character and I cant say why with out spoiling the movie.

    I did not even get a real explanation of how a replicant functions is it all Bio clone parts or Robots? it never really said, You would think there would be more tense with these things running around looking like humans but he knows who they are there are no hidden ones and the story is just really laid back and slow. not much mystery or detective work either every one he needed to catch seem to fall right into his hands with out him doing much or just step right up in front of his face almost from out of no where.

    and what is up with the part with the snake where there is no mouth sync to what is being said at all or what is going on when he grabs the dudes tie? it is like not even tried to cover the huge mistake in editing.

    So ya good but overrated movie sweet art and setting


    But ya.. I would rather see a new snatcher or Amritage the 3rd game.... Amrtiage never had a game ever it could be part action part Adventure.

    armitage_poly_matrix.jpg


    armitage-ii.jpg

    And the only thing I got from the blade runner game that I remember is that it was using voxels and not ploygons for rendering and did not work with GPU's at all adn it made me feel like I wasted Cash on making a twin 3dfx voodoo 2 machine upgrade.

    The point of Blade Runner has nothing to do with the functions of how a Reploid works or even the detective work, really. It has more to do with what Decker does versus what the Reploids do and the degrees of humanity that blend. "More human than human."
  • jp-30jp-30
    edited July 2013
    Sorry to up an old thread, but the previous chat is interesting and relevant.

    www.shacknews.com/article/69132/gearbox-had-blade-runner-license
    In a recent feature in Official PlayStation Magazine, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford postulates that if his team went ahead with its early plans to develop a game based on the Blade Runner franchise, it "would have been the end" of his company [via CVG].

    Citing Blade Runner as a dream property that Gearbox once had in its pocket, Pitchford says that a game based the Ridley Scott film--which is based on the on the Philip K. Dick classic novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep"--"would've cost like $40m to make and sold about 600,000 units."

    That decision, Pitchford says, would have forced Gearbox to close its doors.

    Pitchford says that there is "no rational" business model that would have made sense to release the Blade Runner game Gearbox envisioned. "If we'd made it with a business model that did work, it would not have been the Blade Runner game we all would have wanted," he said.

    According to Pitchford, Gearbox went as far as to meet with Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott to discuss plans for games based on his work.

    I'd still love to see Telltale make an episodic Blade Runner series... ;) Maybe it would cost less than $40,000,000?
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