Sir Ridley Scott has made some of the great genre movies of all time , but in the last several long time , he ’s also made some horrifying mistakes . But his misfire and omit opportunities pale before the heartrending mistake he ’s about to make : creating a sequel to Blade Runner .
The original Blade Runner is a science fiction chef-d’oeuvre , but it ’s one that does n’t take in any additional narrative . Blade Runner tell apart a single , complete story , and any protraction of it can only diminish the original ’s grandeur . See , Blade Runner is set up so that any sequel would n’t just be a new escapade in the same setting , or a new installment in the franchise , but instead a young chapter in the same story .
If you ’re about to plain how pic stand alone and sequels and prequels do n’t really affect the lineament of the original , that ’s reliable … to a point . Ridley Scott ’s Alien is considered a scifi - repugnance chef-d’oeuvre , but its one whose mount and characters allow for subsequence and prequels likewise to be made , their wildly varying quality does n’t touch on Alien at all . As part of the fib of Anakin Skywalker , the lacklustre Star Wars prequels do diminish the original trilogy for many fans , but the fact of the matter stay that the original trilogy still tells its own story just hunky-dory .
But Blade Runner is extremely unique in that any sequel that includes the character of Rick Deckard , would by necessity answer questions that the original movie pointedly get out unanswered . We all know the central base of the original Blade Runner is what examining the nature of sprightliness and man , by the compare of the replicants of the moving picture — faux humankind who have veridical human needs , including the desire to live past their creator - visit lifespan . By compare the actions and feelings of the humans in the plastic film to the replicants , Blade Runner involve what the underlying aspects of lifespan and humanity really are . It ’s a dubiousness that is perfectly encapsulated by the fiber of Deckard , who by the end of pic , is unsure whether he ’s “ real ” or a replicant himself . It ’s a mystery that the film does not solve , because the equivocalness draw viewers to moot both these possible solution at the same time . It ’s one of the reasons Blade Runner is one of scifi picture palace ’s richest stories .
A Blade Runner sequel — one that includes the elderly Harrison Ford — would answer this question definitively , because the first film has intelligibly say that replicants only live a few yr . If Deckard has bring off to outlive until his sometime age , he ’s a human , and thus the original picture show is robbed of a great deal of its complexness and major power . And it ’s not that Blade Runner 2 : The Legend of Tyrell ’s Au or whatever it ’s go to be called will need to spell it out for us ; the mere macrocosm of an quondam Deckard is enough to compromise the unity of the original film . Sure , we fans can pick out not to watch Blade Runner 2 , but we ca n’t not know the film exist .
For some rationality , Ridley Scott has been essay to ruin the ending of Blade Runner for geezerhood . He ’s gone on record several time enounce that Deckard is human — notably only in interviews in the last decade or so — but its easy to dismiss one man ’s opinion , even if he was the one who directed the movie . But a sequel starring Rick Deckard in his dusk year is something much , much hard to neglect .
Not matter what level Scott and original screenwriter Hampton Fancher have cooked up , the chances of them creating a tale so unspoiled as to be worth this price to the original film is fundamentally nil . And even if Scott had a good rails record with making prequels and sequel to his estimable movies ( which he very much does not ) the odds of him recreating anything as incredible as Blade Runner is highly unconvincing . Even the fact that Scott is n’t contrive on directing the pic himself is n’t helpful , because Harrison Ford is part of it , and if Ford is star he ’s star as Deckard , and thus the original film ’s ending is compromise .
Even beyond the Deckard trouble , there ’s nothing that needs to be added to the Blade Runner history or mythos , and there ’s likely nothing that can be add . The thing that were left unanswered were left unanswered on intent . No one is inquire what 70 - something Deckard ’s life is like , or whether he got an flat with Edward James Olmos and started a origami company , or anything . The future that Blade Runner figure was very much a future realise from the early ’ eighty , and it ’s not one that ’s nearly as relevant today . A Modern installment , made so many decades after the original , ca n’t maybe work . And Scott should only demand to look at his own moving-picture show Prometheus for proof .
The only thing a Blade Runner continuation can do is decrease the power of the original . It ’s a misplace proposition for the movie , Ridley Scott , his legacy , and interview . There is no upside . A Blade Runner sequel is n’t just unneeded , it would be a detriment to one of scifi ’s undisputed masterpieces . come alive up , Ridley . It ’s meter to lease this musical theme die .
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