'Blade Runner' Web Series Prequel

The 1982 classic sci0fi film "Blade Runner" may be getting a prequel via a series of webisodes overseen by Ridley Scott himself.

The New York Times has 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 project. "It's actually based on the same themes as 'Blade Runner.' It's the search for what it means to be human and understanding the notion of empathy." The series will debut later this summer and the first episodes will depict events about two years into the future. From there, Ag8 will take actual story input from its viewers in conjunction with the Web site FriendFeed.
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I'll definitely be checking this out once it is released just because I am a big fan of "Blade Runner." How about you?
More news to come! Catch ya' later!

Blade Runner 2

Blade Runner came out in 1982, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford. It is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. It is about Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans.The year is 2019, and the world is a techno-crazed image of LA.

The movie is heralded as one of the greatest science fiction films ever made and is #103 of the top 250 movies on IMDB.
It has been 26 years since the movie was released, and the film has been rereleased many time with new cuts of the film. Now, writers from the movie Eagle Eye are hoping to make a sequel.

Judao got the scoop on Blade Runner 2.

"It’s true, folks! Hot source on the project states that Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner sequel is in the works under the command of veteran producer Bud Yorkin. Top screenwriters John Glenn and Travis Wright (Eagle Eye) are working on several treatments since 2006 and the current status of the story is classified, but Yorkin is in touch with previsualization team The Third Floor (all former Star Wars special effects team members) in order to work on some of the hunter sequences and space battles which occur in off-world colonies where the sequel is most likely to take place. Blade Runner II is still away from its conclusion, but it’s evolving.

Previs seems to be a vital part of the process now that the crew will be able to fix problems and reduce the need of reshoots which were a drag on the first version. If it will good or bad, only time will tell. Yorkin already mentioned that if the green light is given, he’ll bring back stars Harrison Ford, Hutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah."