Tag: Blade Runner 2049

  • Denis Villeneuve Thinks Movies Talk too Much

    Denis Villeneuve Thinks Movies Talk too Much

    Great filmmakers generate conversation about film, and Denis Villeneuve is doing that even outside of his movies. The director, whose Dune: Chapter Two opens this week, spoke to the UK newspaper The Times about his new film and said that he doesn’t like dialogue and that it is a detriment to films. Well, kind of; he said…

  • Why I’m Excited: Blade Runner: Black Lotus

    Why I’m Excited: Blade Runner: Black Lotus

    Harrison Ford was largely known for three genre roles in the 70s and 80s: Han Solo, Indiana Jones, and Rick Deckard. While I grew up with the former two, I wasn’t really introduced to Deckard until college. Oh sure, I heard the name and understood the influence that Blade Runner had had for the last…

  • Dave Bautista Joins Dune

    Dave Bautista Joins Dune

    It looks like Bautista is trading Marvel for the desert. Deadline exclusively reports the wrestler-turned-actor has signed on to Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune adaptation. When this project was first announced, to say I was excited would be an understatement. I had loved the SyFy channel adaptions of the story (to this day I…

  • Blade Runner: Black Lotus Anime Coming to Adult Swim, with a New Comics Line from Titan Books

    Blade Runner: Black Lotus Anime Coming to Adult Swim, with a New Comics Line from Titan Books

    Alcon Television and Crunchyroll are teaming up to produce a thirteen-episode animated series taking place between Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049; this follows the recent announcement of the new line of comic books licensed to Titan Books (publishers of Dr. Who comic books) to be co-written by Blade Runner 2049 screenwriter Michael Green…