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Duncan Jones Will Follow Moon With Mute
We'd recently thought that Moon director Duncan Jones would make the submarine thriller Escape From the Deep as his next feature, but now it seems like Mute, the film he'd previously likened to a Berlin Blade Runner, will be next after all. Moon won the prize for best new British feature over the weekend at the Edinburgh Film Festival, and that win may have helped push Mute forward. Screen Daily reports the UK-German co-production will once again be produced by Moon producer Stuart Fenegan, but with a lot more money: $25m instead of $5m.For months, Jones has mentioned his big-city mystery story that takes place in a future Berlin, but he's also likened it to Blade Runner in the sense that it is, well, a big-city mystery in the future version of an established city. (Jones is also a massive [Read more]
Blade Runner Getting a Prequel Web Series Sometime Soon
It's not often that I write about something like this, but being a die-hard fan of Blade Runner, I just can't help myself. Over at the New York Times, they have an article announcing that a new division of Ridley Scott's commercials company, RSA Films, has started development on a video series called Purefold. The series of linked 5- to 10-minute shorts will first debut on the web and will be set at a point in time before 2019, which is when Blade Runner takes place. Unfortunately, since The Halycon Company owns the rights to Philip K. Dick's entire estate, this video series will only be inspired by Blade Runner and its themes.We don't take any of the canon or copyrighted assets from the movie, said David Bausola, the founding partner of Ag8, the independent studio which is developing the [Read more]
Are Ridley and Tony Scott Really Working on a Blade Runner Prequel?
Today, Ridley Scott announced a new sci-fi webseries from his RSA Films commercial company, created in conjunction with his brother Tony and nephew Luke. Purefold is to be a series of 5-10 minute online videos, laden with product placement and tinged with Phillip K.Dick-like sci-fi themes, concepts and questions. Already, I've seen reports pitching it as a kind of Blade Runner prequel where, in fact, it is nothing of the sort. Can't blame the Scott Bros. (and Son) from trying to cash in on the comparison-cum-confusion though, can you?The New York Times are quoting David Bausola, from the AG8 studio that will actually be making the films. Here's his comments on how the project ties into Blade Runner, or rather doesn't:We don’t take any of the canon or copyrighted assets from the movie. It’s [Read more]
Cool Stuff: Blade Runner and Fifth Element Video Game Renderings
Steven Chagnon, Alina Gal, and Ilya Nedyal collaborated to create screenshots for a Blade Runner video game using CryEngine 2 for a Movie-themed Game-Artist.net competition. After the jump I’ve included another notable submission is this Fifth Element rendering by Robert Dukes. I’ve actually made the above Blade Runner screenshot my desktop background.Cool Stuff is a [...] [Read more]
Duncan Jones Wants to Make a Blade Runner-Like Sci-Fi Mystery Next
Most of you haven't seen the brilliant sci-fi film Moon yet, but once you do, I know you'll all want to see more from Duncan Jones. Although he is only now just breaking into feature filmmaking, after directing commercials for a British ad agency, he's already on his way to becoming one of the next big things. So as is always the case, we've got to know what's next for Duncan Jones. Well, thankful [Read more]
Ridley Scott's Monopoly Movie All About Our Economy?
No matter how much I continue to hear about the Monopoly movie, I still feel like it's all just a big hoax, created by Hollywood for no legitimate reason. I can't really imagine that Ridley Scott, the man behind Alien and Blade Runner and Gladiator, would want to direct a movie based on a board game?! Oh, but he does, I have to direct it, Scott told MTV. In their recent update, Scott and Hasbro's [Read more]
Just don't call him Zowie
Filmmaker Duncan Jones, whose debut feature Moon channels the more cerebral science fiction of Blade Runner or even the 1972 Russian film Solaris, briefly mentions he grew up for a spell in what was then West Berlin.With its gleaming modernism and dark alleys, reserved orderliness and yet effusive art, the city was an ideal experience for a boy destined to become a filmmaker with a fondness for off-kilter science fiction. In fact, he's currently working on a Berlin-based thriller, intended as a [Read more]
On Sale Now: The 'Blade Runner' House
On Sale Now: The 'Blade Runner' Houseby Jessica Barnes Jun 22nd 2009 // 2:45PMFiled under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, NewsstandIf recreations aren't your thing and you've always wanted to own a genuine piece of Blade Runner history, today is your lucky day ... but it's going to cost you. Christie's Great Estates has announced that Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House (also known as The Blade Runner House), is officially up for sale. There is a $15 million price tag on the house, but the cultural la [Read more]
Crumbling Blade Runner house for sale
The house had appeared in other films before Blade Runner 1982, but the science-fiction movie's success put it on the must-see trail for movie buffs visiting Los Angeles. It has since appeared in a host of other films and television programmes, including Black Rain, the Karate Kid Part III, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. [Read more]
Blade Runner house goes on sale
US architect Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis mansion, used as a backdrop for films including Blade Runner, has been put on the market for $15m (£9.1m).Guardians of the striking Los Angeles house, built from Mayan-inspired concrete blocks in 1924, are hoping to find a private buyer to preserve it. [Read more]
Face recognizing billboards coming to cyberpunk future near you
Shades of Blade Runner or Minority Report. You're walking down a thronged street, one molecule of personality in a river of prospective consumerism rushing by. To your left, a billboard, advertising a new type of soda through the avatar of a middle-aged woman. You turn your head to look at it for a moment, but before its passive message is sinking into your cerebellum, the woman holding up the can of pop morphs into a man, roughly of your physical description. Obviously, technology that could [Read more]
The reality of movie technology
We all know the iPhone and what it can do. It?s actually only two years old, but it feels like it has been around forever. What it has done is force the pace ? other mobile manufacturers are still trying to catch up to the beauty and simplicity of its multi-touch interface. [Read more]
Review: 'The Case of the Neon Twins'
The Case of the Neon Twins, now in production at Jump-Start Theater, tells a detective story with science fiction elements, as in the movie Blade Runner. It's set in San Antonio of 2068. Private detective Franco (Joel Settles) gives us some idea of how things have gone to heck in a hand basket — something about corporate ownership of cities and vast areas of wasteland. [Read more]
A Moon for the (Technologically) Misbegotten: A Review of Moon
Gary Westfahl's works include the Hugo-nominated Science Fiction Quotations: From the Inner Mind to the Outer Limits (2005) and The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2005); samples from these and his other works are available at his World of Westfahl website. His most recent books are two collections of essays: Science Fiction and the Two Cultures, co-edited with George Slusser, by various hands, and The Science of Fiction and the Fiction of Science, by the late Frank McConn [Read more]
Great places to read a book
Where is the best possible place to read a book that you cannot, a) tear yourself apart from or, b) find any time to read? Most people will say it's in bed at the end of a long day or on a morning you don't have to work. The latter allows for a cup of coffee to accompany the experience and the former generally acts as a sleep aid.Hardbacks are no use for the side-sleeper as the book is just too heavy and cumbersome. The side sleeper has to make do with a paperback of some description. The sitter [Read more]
Movie Review: Moon (2009)
Comparisons to 2001, Blade Runner and other genre defying sci-fi films have been bandied about by all critics and in terms of storytelling those comparisons are accurate, but as for the story itself you will be quite disappointed if you raise your expectations that high. The best part of Moon is the idea behind it; where the story came from and where it is going, but neither are offered here. Unfortunately, Moon is a jailbreak film without the chase or the opportunity for the prisoner to clear h [Read more]
Ladies in waiting
GIRLS look forward to a good ABC Sunday night period drama. Wethrive on nice costumes and stories about relationships anddialogue about just being in love. Girls deserve some of that aftera hazardous week of parking, excursion forms, indifferent tradesmenand general ennui. But we won't be palmed off with crap. We've hadPink shoved down our throats all week.A dud Sunday night period drama is a source of greatdisappointment. It's a lost opportunity. It's a cheat, especiallywhen a terrific cast (Em [Read more]
'True Blood' Star William Sanderson: 'Shouldn't we support our
‘True Blood' Star William Sanderson: ‘Shouldn't we support our soldiers?'by Christian Toto William Sanderson says he likes to fly under the radar. The in-demand character actor?s resume just won?t let him get away with it. Sanderson?s career has brought him to the past (?Deadwood?), the future (?Blade Runner?) and a few surreal points in between (the long-running ?Newhart?).The actor is currently co-starring in HBO's vampire drama ?True Blood,? set to begin its second season at 9 [Read more]
Interview: Tony Scott
I always get criticized for style over content, unlike Ridley's films like Alien or Blade Runner or Gladiator that go right into the classic box right away. [Read more]
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Blade Runner is an influential 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott which depicts a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019. The screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, is loosely based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The film features Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah. The lead art designer was Syd Mead, and the soundtrack composer was Vangelis.
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