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By: Blade Runner Returns for Final Cut « Show Me SciFi

Blade Runner Returns for Final Cut « Show Me SciFi — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 01:09:32 +0000

[...] old..the Final Cut is a renewed version. Not just simple things like the odd special effects tweak, but actual new footage too -director Ridley Scott has actually redone the awesome scene with ZHORA where Decker (Harrison [...]

By: charlie

charlie — Tue, 15 May 2007 23:30:56 +0000

At first I also LIKED the original voice-over and its happy end, now I prefer to think that Deckard is a replicant. If it goes on theaters again, I’ll go with my nexus-6 T-shirt from memetictees.com. I can’t wait for the DVD.

By: GrantTLC

GrantTLC — Tue, 01 May 2007 16:38:54 +0000

Heretic. Pfft.

By: Anjouli

Anjouli — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:36:52 +0000

Call my a heretic, but I LIKED the original voice-over.

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Blade Runner - REDONE? (again?!) « Show Me SciFi « Avenues — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:16:49 +0000

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Neil Whitfield’s English and ESL A new version of Blade Runner? « — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:07:05 +0000

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By: The Process

The Process — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 04:35:54 +0000

No way will Ford do it.. he says to this day that he absolutely HATED doing Bladerunner.

By: tomd22

tomd22 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:32:52 +0000

This is long overdue. The best way to go would be a set with all versions included. I hope R.S. dosen’t take too long with the transfer, because I can’t wait.

By: stjarna67

stjarna67 — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:16:12 +0000

So many thoughts here….

1) Have they run out of ideas for anything new? What happened to imagination?

2) Aren’t the replicants going to be a long less believable when they have walkers and oxygen tubes in their noses?

3) If they do recast people, it just won’t be the same when that one replicant says “Wake up, time to die!”

They need to just leave it alone….

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Top Posts « WordPress.com — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:58:11 +0000

[...] Blade Runner – REDONE? (again?!) Looks like a special 25th anniversary edition of Blade Runner is in the works. BEST PART? Scene RESHOOTS!! We’re […] [...]

By: metroxing

metroxing — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:04:19 +0000

She shoots first?

Maybe they will re-do every Harrison Ford movie so he always shoots second?

By: guest

guest — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:19:28 +0000

Harrison Ford will never, ever work with Ridley Scott again.

By: Darshan

Darshan — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:03:23 +0000

Not that there aren’t a lot of people who don’t have a point, but I will say in Ridley’s case that even the Director’s Cut which we know from video and a previous theatrical run was rushed to get to theatre, so Ridley’s final vision was never quite realized.

I’m willing to give Ridley the benefit of the doubt when it comes to coming up with a final cut that lives up to its amazing legacy. Should he screw it up, I will be the first to scream bloody murder. And I am sorry, but to anyone who says that this somehow compares to George Lucas and what he’s done to his franchise, sorry Ridley’s got nothing on him.

I knew Ridley would be doing something with BR for the anniversary, but I had no idea it involved re-shoots. . . We’ll see. I think what is saddest for me is the fact that this is the first Ridley Scott project I have looked forward to for a great while, and it is on a project 25 years old. To me, that’s the biggest shame.

By: mattgunn

mattgunn — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:54:47 +0000

Wow, that is pretty ridiculous… yet kinda cool.

-Matt
http://www.mattgunn.ca

By: dailypop

dailypop — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:03:53 +0000

Not as troubling as the new ‘I Dream of Jeanie’ episodes with more impressive effects and yet another Darrin played by Nicholas Cage, but still… I can’t pretend to not be peeved.

This film has always been one of my faves and to see it altered in such a way really bums me out.

By: GrantTLC

GrantTLC — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:48:57 +0000

Star Wars 1-3 don’t so much need a remake, as an Unmake. It could bring our global population together, our mutual desire to re-write reality and forget these films EVER HAPPENED.

Bladerunner needs ‘enhancement’ and re-shot scenes as much the Mona Lisa needs her eyebrows, or Michaelangelo’s David needs a tight pair of Levi’s.

I respect the work Ridley Scott has done, but I fear he may have fallen to the Dark Side (the side where he bathes in crinkly green notes marked with dead presidents).

By: lifeinmotion

lifeinmotion — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 17:42:38 +0000

The actress who played Zhora is really old. I am amazed she was still able to fit into her old costume after 20 years!

By: bluurb

bluurb — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:55:53 +0000

please no… leave it alone!

By: extrapolater

extrapolater — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:27:28 +0000

otherdave is right – these “limited edition” type things are always about making more money without having to do much work.

By: extrapolater

extrapolater — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:26:13 +0000

Sorry, I don’t get the point of having geriatric actors come back for reshoots. Next thing you know, authors will be going back and “rewriting” their classic novels.

By: SFG

SFG — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:41:09 +0000

There’s lots of inconsistencies in the scene where Zhora goes crashing through the glass windows. I don’t see Ridley screwing this film up.

By: eleventyurple

eleventyurple — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:26:30 +0000

Far too much hate. I’m looking forward to this considering all the stories I’ve heard about people messing with his final cut. This isn’t Lucas or Spielberg, folks. I have a feeling there will be no replacing of guns with walkie talkies and re-shot scenes of Decker shooting second.

By: bananasfk

bananasfk — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:57:47 +0000

groan – The pkd book is better and has not been revised. The lesson that can learn’t here is to never ever buy films on dvd/ blueray / and any future disk format say pinkray and appleray and rent it instead.

Mr Ridley is laughing at you fans

By: imtheotherdave

imtheotherdave — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:17:35 +0000

Money, money, money…money.

By: Quincy

Quincy — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:18:38 +0000

As far as I heard the original Director’s Cut will be re-issued with this edition as part of a 4-disc set for the anniversary. I would be interested to see anything in the way of re-shoots, but I hear that much of this additional footage was original, just left out of even the Director’s Cut. I don’t know for sure, but I am excited about a new transfer of the DC. I don’t think, however, that a more explicit revelation of Decker’s replicant-hood would improve on the DC.

By: startlingmoniker

startlingmoniker — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:29:29 +0000

I think they should re-do it as a limited-animation cartoon, with Robin Williams doing all the voices– just to make sure they fuck it up completely. I wouldn’t want them to only fuck it up halfway, you know? So yeah, I agree with Benjamin– leave the thing alone.

Besides, if anything needs to be remade, it’s Star Wars. We all know that JarJar has GOT to go. I’ll take an extended Ewok techno remix over that JarJar nonsense (and Jake Lloyd’s “yippee”) ANY DAY.

By: Benjamin Studtmann

Benjamin Studtmann — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:40:55 +0000

If this is genuinely true then they will inevitably sodomize dry and hard a revered classic, continuing the movie sci-fi trend for this decade. What will they “improve” next?

LEAVE MY CHILDHOOD DREAMS ALONE, DAMNIT. THANK YOU.