Denis Villeneuve says he was initially frightened by the prospect of making Blade Runner: 2049. The long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s seminal sci-fi film, Blade Runner (loosely adapted from Philip K. Dick’s novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), comes 35 years after the original movie hit theaters and changed the scope of the genre forever. Although Scott returned to the director’s chair for the Alien prequel series, he opted to have another filmmaker take over those duties for the Blade Runner sequel.
Villeneuve was an inspired choice for the job, considering that he hadn’t done any major sci-fi projects at the time, but ...
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