While it’s still not known exactly what shape or form the new Blade Runner movie from original director Ridley Scott will take, it’s now all but a certainty that original star Harrison Ford will not be returning as Deckard.
While the news shouldn’t come as too much of a shock (it’s been widely reported that Ford wasn’t exactly Blade Runner’s biggest fan), there were rumours circulating recently that placed him back in the fold; rumours which a source at Alcon Entertainment has now confirmed to Deadline are “absolutely patently false.”
The Alcon team say that “casting for the movie couldn’t be further from our minds” because “there’s been no discussion about it”, and they’re too busy working with Ridley to try and “break the back of the story and figure out the direction they’re going to take”, before finding a new writer to work on it.
According to Alcon “What Ridley’s doing in Prometheus is a good template for what we’re trying to do; as he created something that has some association to the original Alien, but lives on its own as a standalone movie”, and although there was an admittance that Ford’s presence in the new Blade Runner was a possibility in the future, it was also stressed as “quite unlikely.”
Matt Wheeldon.
Source: Deadline.
