'Blade Runner 2049' Premiered at CinemaCon

By Gracezyl Blanco, Thursday, March 30, 2017

The upcoming action science fiction thriller "Blade Runner 2049" revealed an extended footage preview during Sony's CinemaCon event in Las Vegas.

Lead actor Ryan Gosling ("La La Land"), who plays Officer K in the upcoming film, debuted the footage in front of a stunned crowd in the Las Vegas venue.

The footage did not disappoint. It showed off a bloodied Gosling and an apocalyptic version of Los Angeles and Las Vegas, which was not just full of snow and sand but was also teeming with androids.

Gosling assured attendees of the CinemaCon (including anticipating fans of the film) that the production of "Blade Runner 2049" used minimum CGI as possible.

"Every location was real," Gosling said, as quoted by Variety. "Every set was there... It was a fully functioning, living, breathing world."

In the footage, CinemaCon attendees also got a glance of Harrison Ford's ("Star Wars: The Force Awakens") character, Rick Deckard, a blade runner who was missing for 30 years and was tracked down by Officer K.

Fans were also able to see Jared Leto ("Suicide Squad") who plays a creepy replica manufacturer and was seen caressing a naked android in the clip.

The movie is a follow-up of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 1982 which starred Ford in the same role as Rick Deckard. The sequel was first planned for 1999, but filming did not officially start until around 2014 to 2015.

"Blade Runner 2049" is now directed by Denis Villeneuve, but Scott still worked on the film as an executive producer. The movie also stars Ana de Armas ("War Dogs"), Edward James Olmos ("Battlestar Galactica"), Sylvia Hoeks ("The Girl and Death"), Robin Wright ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"), Mackenzie Davis ("The Martian") and Carla Juri ("Wetlands"), among others.

Sony Motion Pictures chairman Tom Rothman praised the film and called it "cool as [explicit]," and even threw a shade on the streaming platform Netflix, referring to the possibility that people won't go rushing to theaters to see the movie.

"Blade Runner 2049" opens in theaters on Oct. 6.