It's hard to believe that Blade Runner 2 is a reality, but it seems to become more real with each passing day. Principal photography on the film is set to begin next summer, with Ridley Scott producing.
But while the film seems to finally be coming, we know very few details about what the plot of the movie might be. That starts to change now, as Scott recently revealed at the American Film Institute FEST film festival in Los Angeles what the opening scene for Blade Runner 2 will look like. You can read the full description below (via Movieweb), which Scott says builds on the starting blocks of the original film:
"We decided to start the film off with the original starting block of the original film. We always loved the idea of a dystopian universe, and we start off at what I describe as a 'factory farm' - what would be a flat land with farming. Wyoming. Flat, not rolling - you can see for 20 miles. No fences, just plowed, dry dirt. Turn around and you see a massive tree, just dead, but the tree is being supported and kept alive by wires that are holding the tree up. It's a bit like Grapes of Wrath, there's dust, and the tree is still standing. By that tree is a traditional, Grapes of Wrath-type white cottage with a porch. Behind it at a distance of two miles, in the twilight, is this massive combine harvester that's fertilizing this ground. You've got 16 Klieg lights on the front, and this combine is four times the size of this cottage.
"And now a spinner [a flying car] comes flying in, creating dust. Of course, traditionally chased by a dog that barks, the doors open, a guy gets out and there you've got Rick Deckard. He walks in the cottage, opens the door, smells stew, sits down and waits for the guy to pull up to the house to arrive. The guy's seen him, so the guy pulls the combine behind the cottage and it towers three stories above it, and the man climbs down from a ladder - a big man. He steps onto the balcony and he goes to Harrison's side. The cottage actually [creaks]; this guy's got to be 350 pounds. I'm not going to say anything else - you'll have to go see the movie."
It sounds like Deckard and the "big man" might not be on friendly terms. The film will take place decades after the events of the first film, though more details are scarce. Scott has confirmed the long-held theory that Deckard is in fact a replicant, so it seems the sequel will have Ford's character coming to grips with his android self. Ryan Gosling has been confirmed to star in the sequel as well. What exactly his role will be is still unknown.
Blade Runner was selected to be preserved in the United States Film Registry by the Library of Congress back in 1993 for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant." Since then it has often been hailed as one of the most important sci-fi films of all time. As Scott returns to the Alien franchise he created, perhaps it isn't surprising he wishes to return to the world of Blade Runner as well.
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