This article contains spoilers for Blade Runner 2049 and its ending.
They wanted 13 stories, not 12, or whatever.
So I said, What about aBlade Runnerstory?
It was like a real short story.
Will you be home in an hour?
the man most responsible for theBlade Runneruniverse and its massive impact on the culture since.
But Scott declined to direct the sequel himself, selecting instead the masterful Denis Villeneuve (Arrival).
My agents called me and said, Do you know Michael Green?
I said, What?
Michael Green, no.
How did this happen?
Because he worms his way into my life in various ways.
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Its about love, and its about corruption, its the perversity of power.
I had the good fortune to get to build on all those sound and salient themes, adds Green.
And if the first film is very much about quantity of life, this became about quality of life.
Then the concept of ensoulment came up.
Does the soul exist?
Does it live in the body?
When does the soul come into a body?
When does it leave?
Joi may be the most empathetic character in the film.
And you could wonder about the integrity of that yearning.
But both Green and Fancher are hesitant to say whether they left room for a sequel deliberately.
Blade Runner 2079, anyone?
Blade Runner 2049is out in theaters now.
