With Ridley Scott out there promoting Prometheus, it’s not a surprise he’s getting tagged by interviewers about other projects, especially that of the sequel to Blade Runner that the genre oriented sites will naturally hone in on. Scott’s kept a lot of Prometheus under wraps for quite a long time and the payoff certainly appears to be there overseas in the box office so far as it’s doing strong numbers in a limited number of markets. But when the folks at Collider sat down with him to talk about the film and then asked about the Blade Runner sequel and whether he’d visualized any of it yet, he said he had and then went on to describe a particular scene for them.
“There’ll be a vast farmland where there are no hedges or anything in sight, and it’s flat like the plains of—where’s the Great Plains in America? Kansas, where you can see for miles. And it’s dirt, but it’s being raked. On the horizon is a combine harvester which is futuristic with klieg lights, ‘cause it’s dawn. The harvester is as big as six houses. In the foreground is a small white clapboard hut with a porch as if it was from Grapes of Wrath. From the right comes a car, coming in about six feet off the ground being chased by a dog. And that’s the end of it, I’m not gonna tell you anything else.”
[Source: Collider]
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That opening scene was actually a rejected scene from the original
Blade Runner. Pretty cool scene actually, it would have been nice if
they could have fit it in. If you watch the 3 part documentary about it,
Hampton Fancher talks about it, and they show storyboards of what that
scene would have looked like.
Essentially, what happens is the Blade Runner goes to a farm house,
no one is there. He sits down in a chair, and waits. We don’t know for
what. The sun moves. Finally, the door opens, and a farmer walks in.
“What can I help you with?” He walks into the kitchen and puts on some
tea. The Blade Runner follows past him, and shoots him, not saying a
word. He reaches into the guy’s mouth, and pulls out his jaw. It’s a
piece of machinery. He looks at the serial number on it, then puts it in
his pocket and walks out, while the tea kettle boils. He walks back to
his spinner, with the dog outside yipping at his heels, as the spinner
takes off into the background.
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