Blade Runner sequel still looking to replicate success

In an unusually public move, Alcon Entertainment has announced they have an offer out to Harrison Ford to appear in director Ridley Scott's sequel to Blade Runner. Original co-screenwriter Hampton Fancher has written a script with Michael Green that it sounds like Alcon's pretty high on: "We believe that Hampton Fancher and Michael Green have crafted with Ridley Scott an extraordinary sequel to one of the greatest films of all time.We would be honored, and we are hopeful, that Harrison will be part of our project," is the word from Alcon's Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson.

Scott committed to direct back in 2011, but he keeps so many projects aloft, it's easy to imagine his interest drifting elsewhere, particularly after some of the reactions to his revisiting his other previous franchise, with Prometheus. He may be gun-shy of more fan rancor. Ford, on the other hand, has recently jumped back into his Han Solo role for J.J. Abrams in a very high profile way, seemingly game to revisit his classic characters. The story details to this sequel are still unknown, other than it being set decades after events of the original, which took place in 2019...only five years from now!