I want to ask you some questions, Ryan Goslings Officer K tells Harrison Fords Rick Deckard in the first trailer for Blade Runner 2049. Nearly 35 years after Ridley Scotts neo-noir classic debut, Blade Runner fans are still faced with the same inquiries: What is real, and what does it mean to be human?
The sequel, directed by Denis Villenueve and penned by Blade Runner co-writer Hampton Fancher, takes place three decades after the original, with Goslings blade runner, a bounty hunter of biorobotic androids dubbed replicants, patrolling the same smoky, neon-laced landscape that Deckard navigated in 2019.
The first trailer implants the viewer back in that futuristic, cluttered Los Angeles sumptuously captured by master cinematographer Roger Deakins as Officer K seeks to unlock a mystery that could catalyze a war between humans and the lookalike beings.
The trailer opens with Jared Letos silver-eyed character Wallace kneeling at the slimy end of the birth canal process for replicants. Every civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce, he tells a full-grown newborn. But I can only make so many. Happy birthday.
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Officer Ks boss, played by Robin Wright, then breaks down the basic premise of blade running: There is an order to things. Thats what we do here: We keep order. The world is built on a wall that separates kind. Tell either side theres no wall, you bought a war.
According to the films synopsis, Officer K unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge whats left of society into chaos. Ks discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard, a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.
The highlight comes when Officer K encounters Deckard, who is in hiding for reasons unknown. Youre a cop. I did your job once. I was good at it, Deckard growls at K, pointing a gun at the young blade runner. K responds that he wants to ask Deckard some questions, a nod to the infamous Voight-Kampff test used by blade runners to distinguish man from machine. Its unclear why K seeks out Deckard, but the former blade runner is needed to unlock the puzzle at the heart of the film.
The trailer also provides passing glimpses at characters played by Guardians of the Galaxys Dave Bautista, Halt and Catch Fires Mackenzie Davis and Ana de Armas as Ks (replicant?) love interest. Sylvia Hoeks, who appears to portray a bounty hunter of bounty hunters under Wallaces employ, is involved in multiple shootouts in the trailer. However, Edward James Olmos seedy cop Gaff, a reprisal of his role from the 1982 film, is absent from the first trailer.
Its unclear what role Bautista is playing, but Ridley Scott, a producer on the sequel, previously revealed how he envisioned a Blade Runner sequel would open: With Deckard fighting a 350-pound replicant in the barren wastelands of 2019 Wyoming. While its unclear whether that scene, which was the original opening to Blade Runner itself in a draft of that script, carried over to 2049, Bautista definitely meets the qualifications of 350-pound behemoth.
Scott also hinted that the Blade Runner sequel would finally answer whether Deckard is a replicant, but 2049 will likely torment viewers with that same question regarding Officer K.
Your story isnt over yet. Theres still a page left, de Armas tells K in voiceover as the blade runner stares down at an open book, pages torn from its middle, in a scene reminiscent to the unicorn memories where Deckard questioned his own reality in Blade Runner.
Before the trailer premiered, Gosling, Ford and Villeneuve sat down for a Facebook Live panel where the trio discussed the original Blade Runners impact, the connection between the films and how the technology seen in the prophetic 1982 movie Blade Runner takes place in 2019, just two years from now holds up to reality.
We havent worked out the flying car thing yet, so thats disappointing, Gosling joked about the technology seen in 1982s version of 2019. But Im being nicer to my electronics, just in case.
Ford added, I think its fascinating that the original film postulated a technology that, in many ways, we surpassed and, in other ways, were not quite there. The actor said that Blade Runner 2049, like the original, deals with some of the ethical consequences of humans relationship with technology.
Ford, who has reprised his iconic characters Indiana Jones and Han Solo in recent years, also spoke about steeping back into the role of Rick Deckard after over three decades. I think that the character is woven into the story that intrigued me, Ford said. Theres a very strong emotional context.
One of the questions the actors refused to answer has perplexed Blade Runner fans for years: Is Deckard himself a replicant? The fact that the bounty hunter ages naturally like humans as opposed to deteriorate after four years like the replicants in Blade Runner suggests Deckard was human after all, whatever that entails.
We are still exploring the themes of memories and empathy, Villeneuve said. That is what the film is about: What it means to be human.
Blade Runner 2049 arrives in theaters on October 6th.
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