Back in March, I brought you the news that black giant Broderick Johnson and white midget Andrew Kosove from Alcon Entertainment were planning to make a new Blade Runner movie. Today, Deadline reports that original Blade Runner director Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce, once he finishes Prometheus, his Alien prequel for Fox. Well, it’s nice to see that Sir Ridley isn’t just coasting by on his past successes. Hey, has anyone remade Gladiator yet?
I’m not getting a clear sense at this point whether Scott intends to do a sequel or a prequel to the 1982 film that was loosely based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The original took place in dystopian Los Angeles in 2019, in which organic superhuman robots called replicants escaped and are hiding somewhere on earth. Ford played Richard Deckard, a burnt out blade runner assigned to hunt them down. His tired life gets altered when he himself falls for one of the replicants and struggles to keep her from being destroyed.
This is just the first step and the project will have to be written and it will likely evolve during that process. That’s what happened on Alien, which began as a prequel to his 1979 classic. That changed when Lost‘s Damon Lindelof came in with a different take on the subject matter that imprinted on Scott and Fox executives. [HOW ‘BOUT IT ALSO HAS COWBOYS???] They wound up making Prometheus, which Fox considers an original but which I’ve heard is a cousin to the original Alien franchise. That film will be released June 8, 2012, with Charlize Theron, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba and Guy Pearce starring. [Deadline]
Yeeeeah… I’ll believe it when I see it. I can’t even count the number of projects Ridley Scott has supposedly been attached to in the last three or four years. Here‘s a story about him being attached to a Cold War drama called Reykjavik. Here‘s him attached to Call of Duty Elite. Here‘s his “Blade Runner of Monopoly movies”. Here‘s him discussing adapting Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridien. Here‘s the Brave New World movie he was supposedly producing. Here‘s a vampire movie he was supposedly going to direct. Here‘s a list of nine other projects he was supposedly attached to at some point. And that’s if he ever finishes that sequel to his Robin Hood origin story that everyone’s been clamoring for. This guy talks about stuff he’ll never do more than Tarantino on a coke binge, and all of it seems to be a readaptation, reimagination, sequel, spiritual cousin, gritty reboot, or 300-style prequel of some sh*t he already made 20 years ago. Call me when he starts filming Broderick Johnson chasing Andrew Kosove around the room with an oversized mallet while Kosove spills acorns from his overfilled pockets, otherwise I don’t care.