Hampton Fancher - who achieved notoriety for his 1982 "Blade Runner" screenplay - is in talks to return as screen writer for Ridley Scott's projected Blade Runner sequel. It's difficult to gauge whether this is good news or not because Fancher hasn't spent the last 30 years writing a lot of screenplays. So he could be, let's say, rusty. But I'll give him the benefit of the doubt at this point and trust that Mr Scott knows what he's doing. The original film was one of the great movies ever made and one of the few films worthy of the title "visionary". To do justice to the original while creating an entirely new property will be a monumental challenge but Scott seems re-energized regarding the sci-fi genre following his experience with the soon to be released "Alien" prequel "Prometheus".
There is no word at this point whether Harrison Ford has been approached about the project though it is conceivable that his character "Deckard" could have some role to play in a sequel supposedly to be set "some" years after events in the original film.
source:
The Hollywood Reporter
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