{"id":51441,"date":"2016-12-19T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T17:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=51441"},"modified":"2019-03-05T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T00:24:17","slug":"blade-runner-2049-teaser-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/blade-runner-2049-teaser-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The First Teaser For Blade Runner 2049"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think <em>Blade Runner<\/em> needs a sequel?<\/p>\n<p>Director Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 brooding, dark and beautiful adaptation of Philip K. Dick\u2019s novel <em>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? <\/em>(1968) is widely regarded as one of the finest, maybe <em>the <\/em>finest, science fiction movies ever made. Hailed for its artistic vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth, its deftly written and acted characters, and its evocative and (depending on which of its many cuts you\u2019re watching) enigmatic imagery, <em>Blade Runner<\/em> is a benchmark of futuristic film.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2015\/02\/27\/blade-runner-sequel-harrison-ford-returning\/\">revisiting the world of Replicant-hunter Rick Deckard<\/a> (Harrison Ford, reprising another of his iconic genre roles) is risky business. Will it pay off?<\/p>\n<p>The first footage from <em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em>, released this morning (December 19), will spark a lot of speculation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/haXvp8M9Cog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the official synposis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what\u2019s left of society into chaos. K\u2019s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A quote from the original film sets the tone: \u201cReplicants are like any other machine,\u201d says Deckard, off-screen. \u201cThey\u2019re either a benefit or a hazard. If they\u2019re a benefit, it\u2019s not my problem.\u201d We then follow \u201cOfficer K,\u201d played by Ryan Gosling, through the blighted cityscape of the 1982 film and across a bleak desert (intriguingly, a scenario described in the original movie\u2019s Voight-Kampff empathy test) to a massive abandoned building (is it the Tyrell Corporation\u2019s old HQ? the hotel where William Sanderson\u2019s J.F. Sebastian lived?).<\/p>\n<p>There, Officer K plunks a piano key,\u00a0 just as Deckard did in the original movie, before meeting Deckard himself. I couldn\u2019t stop myself from expecting to hear Deckard growl, as he stepped out of the shadows, \u201cChewie, we\u2019re home.\u201d But what he <em>actually <\/em>says, his gun drawn, \u201cI did your job once. I was good at it. Things were simpler then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hard cut to black, then back to K walking a crowded, dreary city street, and a promised debut date, \u201c10.6.17.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, not much to go on. The footage certainly evokes the original movie\u2019s indelible atmosphere. But will <em>Blade Runner 2049<\/em> make its own exciting and original contributions, expanding this story and world in worthwhile ways?<\/p>\n<p>Will we learn, as many fans have suspected since Scott\u2019s revised versions appeared, that Deckard is himself a replicant? Is Officer K, as well? Maybe (<em>a la<\/em> humans and Cylons in the rebooted <em>Battlestar Galactica<\/em>) there\u2019s no real difference between humans and Replicants anymore\u2014is <em>that <\/em>the secret Officer K has uncovered? And how will real-world events and trends since 1982 shape the filmmakers\u2019 vision of this garish and grim future?<\/p>\n<p>Whether you think <em>Blade Runner<\/em> needed a sequel or not, it\u2019s got one! Here\u2019s hoping we\u2019ll be able to say, once the credits roll, \u201cI\u2019ve seen things you people wouldn\u2019t believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you excited for Blade Runner 2049? Why or why not? Let us know in the comments below!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think Blade Runner needs a sequel? Director Ridley Scott\u2019s 1982 brooding, dark and beautiful adaptation of Philip K. Dick\u2019s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968) is widely regarded as one of the finest, maybe the finest, science fiction movies ever made. Hailed for its artistic vision of a post-apocalyptic Earth, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[4803,2208,671,208],"yst_prominent_words":[37800,37801,17733,17729,37795,17737,15040,6413,37802,8203,37799,37796,6383,8384,37798,17734,37797,17262,37803,6101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64046,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51441\/revisions\/64046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51441"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}