Not content in revisiting the world he created with Alien in this summers Prometheus, Ridley Scott has confirmed that he is returning to another of his old properties, sci-fi noir Blade Runner. Speaking to the
The Daily Beast, the director said that work has started on the sequel to his 1982 cult classic.
Coming Soon also had news on the sequel, reporting that the originals script writer Hampton Fancher, who adapted the script from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, is in talks to script this follow-up. Nothing much was revealed about the story, other than it will be set some years after the conclusion of the first film, and will feature a new female protagonist, though there is no word on whether she will be a synthetic human Replicant or a Blade Runner, the police officers assigned to hunt them down.
While it hasn't been confirmed that Harrison Ford will reprise his role of Rick Deckard, the film ending with the audience questioning if he was human or Replicant, but
The Guardian ran a story a few months ago that he had entered talks to reprise the role. It's all rumor at the moment, but all will become clear as the project gets up and running.
