'Blade Runner 2' News: Ryan Gosling in Talks to Join Harrison Ford
Ryan Gosling is reported to be in negotiations to join the upcoming sequel of the sci-fi cult classic "Blade Runner." If he signs on, he will be joining Harrison Ford, who is reprising his role as Rick Deckard. Gosling's role, however, is still unknown.
Gosling, who was last seen in "The Place Beyond the Pines," has been notably absent in box office hit movies this past few years. In 2013, he announced that he was taking a temporary break from acting, saying that he had "lost perspective" on what he was doing. During this time, he tried his hand at directing and producing. In 2014, he signed on for "Nice Guys" with Russell Crowe and is currently working on the "The Big Short" with Christian Bale, Steve Carrell and Brad Pitt.
Denis Villeneuve will helm the project for Alcon Entertainment, with the first movie's director, Ridley Scott as executive producer. The sequel's screenplay was written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green. The story will still be set in a futuristic, dystopian Los Angeles, but several decades after. The 1982 original film was set in 2019 Los Angeles. Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, was a replicant hunter – a replicant was a bioengineered being.
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No plot details have been revealed about the sequel. One report in The Guardian speculated about some points that fans of the first movie would want to see in the sequel. The first film, considering that it came out in the 1980s, was considered "fresh and innovative." With Villeneuve and Scott on board, it will be a good combination of something new and something old and familiar.
The movie, according to the report, "set the standard for futuristic cityscapes." With the sequel being made at a time when movie-making technology is at its best, they could repeat the feat.
Production is set to start sometime in 2016, but no release date has been revealed.
