‘Blade Runner 2’ starring Ryan Gosling to start shooting in July

“Blade Runner 2” will begin filming in July 2016 with Harrison Ford returning as the Replicant Rick Deckard. The original film’s director, Ridley Scott, will executive produce.

The idea for the sequel, which is understood to take place several decades after the conclusion of Blade Runner, was devised by Scott and Fancher.

Over the past year or two there’s been no shortage of talk about a sequel to Blade Runner.

Replicants who returned to Earth were hunted down by special police operatives known as Blade Runners, with Harrison playing a burnt-out Blade Runner who takes on one last assignment.

Alcon also announced that Warner Bros. will distribute the film in the USA, and Sony around the world. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will produce along with Johnson and Kosove.

Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producer along with Scott.

“At Sony, we have made a strong commitment to the global marketplace”, said chairman of Sony Picture Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group Tom Rothman. The film is based on the 1968 novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick.

Roger Deakins is the cinematographer/ Principal photography on the yet-to-be-titled sequel is scheduled to begin in July.

The Blade Runner sequel has great potential considering the currently-attached director is Dennis Villeneuve, who has been impressing critics and audiences for a few years now with output like Sicario, Enemy, Prisoners and Incendies.

In 1993, BLADE RUNNER was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.