Official Blade Runner 2036 Short Film Bridges the Gap Between the Sequel and the Original (nerdist.com) 47
Between the events of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, much has happened in the dystopian, neo-Los Angeles future, including the era of replicant prohibition. To help bridge the first Blade Runner, which was released in 1982, with Blade Runner 2049, director Luke Scott has created a short film (YouTube) that examines Niander Wallace's role in the decision to overturn the prohibition ruling. From an article, shared by several readers: As explained by Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve in the introduction for this video, he invited a few filmmakers to create three shorts that set the stage for his film. Blade Runner 2036: Nexus Dawn was directed by Luke Scott, and it reveals that Replicant technology was outlawed in the intervening years. That can't be considered too much of a surprise, considering the Replicants of 2019 were able to elude conventional detection. The short officially introduces Jared Leto's Niander Wallace, as he makes a personal request to repeal the anti-Replicant laws. In reality, Wallace had no intention of abiding by those rules, and he's already created at least one new Replicant whom he describes as an "angel." Intriguingly, Wallace argues that the new Replicants are necessary for humanity's survival in the off-world colonies, and he promises that his Replicants will never rebel and will only obey. But we've heard that promise before! And it never ends well.
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Animatrix with Juno Reactor was amazing, and groundbreaking artistically at the time. I doubt this will be either of those things.
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I never saw Animatrix, but I wouldn't call 2036 groundbreaking. It's a 6 minute conversation where a replicant manufacturer tries to persuade lawmakers in favor of keeping the ban. I love Blade Runner and I'll see the sequel, but if there was ever a movie that didn't need one...
Re:Bumpers. (Score:4, Funny)
What do The Matrix and Blade Runner have in common? Both have NO sequels, and anyone who says otherwise is a filthy liar.
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clear cut plots with beginning, middle, and end, and plot points, turning points, climaxes, etc ( or variations or subversions of them ) are part of appeal of some art forms,
sequels and franchises beat such solid art into a mush. if there are some broken parts in that quagmire, they have lost all meaning.
mush is the same as in never ending soap operas.
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I've never seen it. Is that better or worse?
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Oops wrong thread.
what is it about? (Score:1)
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Re:what is it about? (Score:5, Insightful)
So far as I can tell, it's not about anything.
Trailers already hinted that replicants were still around. This reveals nothing which enhances that understanding.
What it addes is another mystery box in the guise of what the short calls "The Blackout" which has been explained as being a world-wide EMP (can't wait to see how that one is explained) that wiped out all/nearly all electronic data and throwing the world into a temporary dark age. Seeing how books were still around and people reading signs and stuff I'm not sure the world supports that particular idea well. Hopefully what happens is that the audience is somewhere along the line clued in as to why this six minute short is useful for understanding the film. Otherwise this was just something that ended up on the cutting room floor that the director put out as a stunt to keep people interested.
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Huh? This short reveals a lot!
For instance, it reveals that for reasons I can't quite put a finger on, I deeply dislike Jared Leto. Not the characters he plays, the man himself. Why? I don't know him. He could be a pretty cool dude. But no. After watching this short, I can still say that I don't like that guy.
Pretty revealing.
Sequel? (Score:2)
What sequel?
The concept of this short film is good but... (Score:4, Interesting)
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It wasn't directed by Villeneuve, but rather Luke Scott. Who I would wager has some relationship to Ridley.
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"Luke, I am your father."
-Ridley Scott, years ago
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what you need to enjoy bladerunner (original directors cut)
1) big screen
2) no distractions, preferably alone
3) bottle of whiskey
then it is a brilliant movie. don't do this if you have thoughts about suicide. I'd imagine it would work better if you had your ass kicked the night before and were spitting blood though(a particular scene in the film manages to make that look good, especially so on a big screen).
I'm a bad geek, reason #2551 (Score:1)
I hate the movie Blade Runner. There, I said it.
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I really quite hated it the first time I saw it (in 1986 or something like that). I didn't "get it." But I loved it the second and third times I saw it. Same with Donnie Darko.
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I've seen the original twice, and the director's cut once. The director's cut is OK.
What I find irritating about the movie is that it's so close to being good. And I agree that the aspects of it that people tend to rave about are pretty great (cinematography, mostly). I also can't fault the acting. I have serious problems with the script, but there are other movies with sub-par scripts that I love, so *shrug*
I can't really explain what it is I don't like about it.
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I hate the movie Blade Runner. There, I said it.
Which version?
US theatrical cut?
International cut?
Director's cut?
Final cut?
(Feel free to name any of the other versions you hated too) ;-)
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The first time I saw the movie as a kid, it had Ford's voice-over. After that, the movie feels hollow without it. But the US Theatrical Cut that includes the VO leaves out the unicorn dream and tacks on a happy ending. The unicorn dream is important to the story and the happy ending is lame. Obviously, they need to create another cut before they get it right.
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I found the director's cut to be OK. I don't hate it, but I don't feel the need to see it again. Haven't seen the final cut. I dislike the others.
Oddly, I love the story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
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I hate the movie Blade Runner.
Then you just failed the test, replicant.
Looks bad. (Score:2)
It has no new ideas.
Blade Runner was pleasing to the eyes, ears and intellect. It set off many pleasing gongs of meaning that resonated with each other.
This short makes it seem that it's going to be mindless action-fodder. The Slashdot summary describes all the meaning in the short perfectly -- it's that shallow.
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Yeah, this poll makes sense, I think.
It's crap. (Score:2)
n/t
the total recall remake made me lose hope. (Score:4, Insightful)
made me lose hope for 80s sequels or remakes.
it is very sad that they can't seem to fit science and plausability into their plot and instead of go what looks cool, same for new star trek movies..
which is kind of amazing considering what kind of pop fun the originals were. it's a real achievement that the old movies, even total recall, seem like "hard scifi" now. I mean, where the fuck do they recruit their writers nowadays? where do they find people who think that putting an elevator through the earth is good scifi? it makes no sense at all even if you could do it. mining on mars even makes more sense. meddling with the brain makes more sense. even global dystopia makes more sense but shuffling workers through the earth directly makes absolutely fucking no sense at all - just building housing in the first few km of the hole would make a lot more sense by itself!
where do they think that it's a good idea to introduce cellphones that can talk over lightyears and teleporters into star trek? once it is in there if you ignore their existence it just seems like having motorbikes in a western series and then just forgetting they exist for the rest of the show.
at least scott isnt directly involved in this - old ridley can't figure out the plot of his own movies until after few months AFTER it hit the theaters nowadays ffs (prome and cove are tripe - proven by the amount of theory videos on youtube about them, even the people who look them 100 times and ask from scott directly can't figure out the overall plots on how they would make sense so they make up theories on how they make sense, even if the stuff they make theories from are just stuff like what was changed only to look cool - also it's a proven fact that scott had not figured out how the overall plot over the prequels would go and is instead just making shit up as he goes).
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would your opinion be different if , instead of calling it "Total Recall" it was called "We Can Remember It for You Wholesale" ?
By calling it the latter people wouldnt see it as a remake , but a new film based on the same book.
I dont understand why film makers dont do this , particularly when by doing this they will always invite comparisons to the original. and as we all know , the original is always the best.
So why not make an original film interpretation of the same source material ?
It could have been an
It felt like an outtake, not expository (Score:2)
Some group of officials doesn't like replicants and Jared Leto wants replicants and has supposedly done something special with them.
I don't really understand how this "bridges" the gap. I kind of expected a scene which did more to create back story for the larger Blade Runner universe -- political changes, corporate changes, whatever. Or maybe an explanation how after the death of Tyrel we still have Bladerunners on Earth?