The Mexican Bela Lugosi reported in with this bit about a possible BLADE RUNNER 2. Now read the below, and send Glen and email at glen@aint-it-cool-news.com telling him to write up a big update about Blade Runner 2. Apparently he's hoarding the info, like those delicious rice patties covered with sardine can juice. Gosh he's evil. But seriously, email him to put something up about it. I can't because I'm leaving town for a secret mission, I'll report from abroad tomorrow night. However, my Jack Pierce make-up kit is ready and I'm going in full throttle.
I opened the pages of my "Sight & Sound' magazine which arrived today, imported from the U.K.:
Plans are reportedly afoot, perhaps with European backing, for a sequel to BLADE RUNNER, the film which went from good rather than spectactular box-office business and decidedly mixed reviews to becoming a defining moment of late twentieth-century cinema.
Of course, the sequel could turn out to be as much of a damp squib as Tom Savini's 1990 remake of George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (in colour, so it never had a chance) or, indeed, THE GODFATHER PART 3. But since the whole thing is very much at the ideas stage, could Mr. Busy suggest that the new film spend as much time as possible in wide shot and deal with the plot as economically as it can. It's the "look," after all, that has made BLADE RUNNER a classic. And that, perhaps, is one thing we can do a lot better now than we could in the early 80s.
There you go, obviously a supercynical philistine, that Mr. Busy, but we over here have more faith, right?
Regards
The Mexican Bela Lugosi, Abel Salazar)
