Built Ford Tough

The first full trailer for Blade Runner 2049 was released today...



It definitely has a similar look/feel/music to the original Blade Runner movie and also has a great cast (including Harrison Ford from the first film).

I'm definitely looking forward to it!

We'll see what everyone thinks once it opens on October 6th.

Rutger Hauer

Sad news today...

Rutger Hauer, a rugged Dutch actor who played Nazis, action heroes and bloodsucking vampires, but who was best known as the android outlaw in the science-fiction thriller “Blade Runner,” died July 19 at his home in Beetsterzwaag, a village in the Netherlands. He was 75.

He won a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for “Escape From Sobibor,” a 1987 TV movie about an uprising at a Nazi death camp — he played the Jewish hero, against type — and in 2005 was a morally corrupt Catholic cardinal in “Sin City” and a greedy Wayne Enterprises executive in “Batman Begins.” 

Mr. Hauer also starred in the 1985 medieval fantasy “Ladyhawke,” alongside Matthew Broderick and Michelle Pfeiffer; played a vampire king in the 1992 movie “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”; and ruled a supernatural tribe in the HBO series “True Blood.” 

But Mr. Hauer, who described himself as “a very nonviolent person,” soon returned to the menacing characters that made him famous. He starred as an SS officer in the TV movie “Fatherland” (1994), was a vampire in the TNT miniseries “Salem’s Lot” (2004, adapted from a Stephen King novel) and played a bloodthirsty businessman in “The Sisters Brothers” (2018), a Western starring John C. Reilly and Joaquin Phoenix. 

“It’s so much fun to playfully roam into the dark side of the soul and tease people,” Mr. Hauer told the Associated Press in 1987. “If you try to work on human beings’ light side, that’s harder. What is good is hard. Most people try to be good all their lives. So you have to work harder to make those characters interesting.”

He was great in Blade Runner and many other movies and TV shows.

He will be missed.

Time to Live

A cool behind-the-scenes video was released for the upcoming Blade Runner 2049...



They appear to have done an amazing job capturing the overall look, feel, and music of the original Blade Runner. I'm really looking forward to seeing this in the Fall!

The movie opens on October 6th.

2049

A new poster for Blade Runner 2049 was released...



Colorful.

Cool Running

The first teaser trailer for Blade Runner 2049 was just released...



The effects and setting look similar to the original and it's great that Harrison Ford is back and that Ryan Gosling is also one of the leads.

So, that's a bonus.

However, I still don't like the "2049" attached to the end of the title.

It reminds me of the cheesy Battlestar Galactica spin-off series Galactica 1980.

Let's hope that this sequel is WAY better than that was....