The setting, the music and the great performance of the main actors of Blade Runner, especially Harrison Ford, playing one of the roles that have made him a movie legend. Ford already had on his back the leading roles of Han Solo and Indiana Jones, his two most iconic roles, and he also accepted this challenge, closing an illustrious trio that accompanies us today.
All this set of factors placed Blade Runner as a cult film for all fans of the science fiction genre.
Not surprisingly, thanks to this free adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ a good number of cinematographic adaptations of the American author have been carried out. Examples of this are ‘Total Recall’, ‘The man in the high castle’, Minority Report or Paycheck.
Now, 35 years after the 1982 release of Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049 arrives, appearing 30 years after the events that took place in the first film. A continuation that shows us a planet engulfed by pollution and an increasingly complex society.
The road to 2049 has gone through creating a new type of replicant, the Nexus 8S, capable of living longer than its predecessors (year 2020) at the hands of the Tyrell Corporation, the ban on replicants (year 2023) after a electromagnetic explosion that causes a global blackout with incredibly destructive effects on the entire planet, an uprising of the new company Wallace Corp that ends up becoming a world power, the lifting of the ban related to replicants (year 2030) and finally a scenario in 2049 in which the Earth is on the edge and society lives divided between humans and replicants.
What will happen to the world and what role will blade runners play in it?
This time there will be no different versions of the story as in the original tape. The director, Denis Villeneuve, assured that there are no extended versions of the film and that ‘there is only one version of Blade Runner 2049’. Ready to travel to the future?
