Like the first film, it’s a neo-noir detective story with a side-order of ennui and existential panic.
But what’s so thrilling about Villeneuve’s sequel is how completely 2049 feels of a piece with the Blade Runner universe – not just aesthetically, but in terms of its mood, themes, and tone.
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Given Blade Runner 2049’s pedigree – Denis Villeneuve on directing duties, Roger Deakins handling the cinematography – we’d have been taken aback had the movie not looked stunning, and, of course, it does. Could K be the dead replicant’s missing son? The date carved at the foot of the tree where the replicant mother was buried matches K’s memory of the same six numbers carved on the base of his favourite toy, a wooden horse. K, already ambivalent about his job as an executioner, feels a growing emotional pull around the mission. Joshi’s command is that K must find and kill the child born of the replicant before the truth gets out. Spurred on by his unblinking boss, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright), K begins to investigate further. On closer investigation, K learns that the woman was a replicant – which raises the extraordinary suggestion that Tyrell’s last great experiment was to create a non-human capable of reproduction. During one of his missions, at the house of a runaway replicant working as a protein farmer (Dave Bautista), K discovers a locked box buried at the foot of a tree.īack at the police headquarters in Los Angeles, it’s discovered that the bones belong to a woman who died in childbirth.
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It falls to K to find and kill the last of the Tyrell series of replicants, the Nexus-8. Wallace’s predecessor, the Tyrell Corporation, shut down decades earlier, leaving him to take over the job of making artificial slaves. The truth is accidentally uncovered by a new blade runner, the taciturn K (Ryan Gosling), a new breed of replicant created by tech genius Niander Wallace (a bearded Jared Leto). But I have to, because to prove I'm part of the actual process, I have to then have an endless amount, and I can't be bothered.In Blade Runner 2049, the entire plot pivots on Deckard being an artificial creation: “Otherwise,” Scott says, rapping the table for emphasis, “there’s no story.”Īs written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049 reveals what happened after those elevator doors closed all those years ago. "I sit with writers for an inordinate amount of time and I will not take credit, because it means I've got to sit there with a tape recorder while we talk. Scott criticized the audacious film for being "fucking way too long," saying that he would have "taken out half an hour." However, he laid off picking apart the story, in part because Scott claimed to have a role in sculpting the script himself. But while Scott was supportive of the finished film, he had a few choice words for Villeneuve's approach to Blade Runner 2049. It's no secret that Scott had some separation anxiety with Blade Runner - Villeneuve even had to kick Scott off his Blade Runner 2049 set. There's also the issue of the impending Replicant revolution, which offered Blade Runner 2049 a spark of hope and could feasibly be the premise for a whole other movie. Ana Stelline's (Carla Juri) story is just beginning. I've got another one ready to evolve and be developed, so there is certainly one to be done for sure."Ĭould Blade Runner 2049 invite a sequel? The emotional and narrative arc for Ryan Gosling's Agent K is essentially over, but Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) and Dr. When Digital Spy asked him if he was considering returning to make a Blade Runner 3, he responded in the affirmative:
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