#CARLA JURI AS DR. ANA STELLINE ANDROID#

Not to mention that the film offers an ingenious twist on the original that casts a replicant as the central character tasked with retiring his own kind and in the course of the plot his quest becomes one where he begins to ask who he is on a fundamental level.ĭenis Villeneuve faithfully replicates the Cyberpunk world of the original but also lets us see more of it – notedly travelling outside Los Angeles to show other parts of the world. We go behind the scenes to see the way that artificial memories are created, see more advanced versions of the replicants. Blade Runner 2049 even seems determined to repeat its predecessor’s pattern by also being an expensive box-office failure at the same time as enjoying critical plaudits.Įven more so than that, Blade Runner 2049 expands out on the themes of the original. The film also comes with a great many easter eggs and subtle references to the original – like, for instance, how the opening scene here where Ryan Gosling retires the replicant played by Dave Bautista working on a farm is a sequence that was originally storyboarded but not filmed by Ridley Scott as the opening scene for Blade Runner. Ryan Gosling as the blade runner K, along with Ana de Armas as his holographic companion Joi (Scott’s son Luke also directed two of three short films that were released in conjunction with Blade Runner 2049 that explain what happened between the two films). The script has also been written by Hampton Fancher, co-writer of the original, while the film is executive produced by original director Ridley Scott.

#CARLA JURI AS DR. ANA STELLINE ANDROID#

Sean Young sort of makes a return appearance, although this is a new Rachael android wherein Young’s voice has been transposed and her younger face digitally recreated over another actress’s body a la Carrie Fisher in Rogue One (2016). Aside from featuring a key return performance from a now-75 year old Harrison Ford, there is also a one-scene return appearance from Edward James Olmos. He then joined the science-fiction genre with the highly acclaimed science-fiction film Arrival (2016) and subsequent to this Dune: Part One (2021).īlade Runner 2049 comes with a great deal of respect for and fanservice to Blade Runner. Villeneuve then moved into the English-language with the strange doppelganger film Enemy (2013) and the abduction psycho-thriller Prisoners (2013), followed by the non-genre drug wars film Sicario (2015). Villeneuve made his feature-length debut with August 32nd on Earth (1998) and went onto the likes of Maelstrom (2000), Polytechnique (2009) and the critically acclaimed Incendies (2010), all of these in the French language. The sequel comes from Denis Villeneuve, a Quebecois Canadian director who has been making films since the 1990s. Jeter who had published three book sequels in the late 1990s.

The surprise, given the film’s influence, is that nobody has tried to sequelise Blade Runner before this, apart from sf/fantasy author K.W. The film exists in an inordinate number of director’s cuts and digitally remastered new versions. Blade Runner, along with Alien (1979) just before it, also made the career of director Ridley Scott. Indeed, the dark future look came to almost completely dominate science-fiction over the next two decades. The gritty, neo-noir and densely teeming cityscapes made a marked break away from the clean white futures that had dominated science-fiction before that and were a key influence on the formative Cyberpunk movement that took off in literature a couple of years later. It was considered a box-office failure when it first came out but its classic stature has become amply evident since then. Blade Runner (1982) is a bonafide landmark film.

Carla juri as dr. ana stelline