![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Arrival director Denis Villeneuve’s audacious sequel, co-written by original screenwriter Hampton Fancher, really is as good as the hype suggests, spectacular enough to win over new generations of viewers, yet deep enough to reassure diehard fans that their cherished memories haven’t been reduced to tradable synthetic implants. No such tribulations await Blade Runner 2049, which has opened to the kind of critical adoration that sorely evaded Scott’s original. ![]() Indeed, it was only when Blade Runner was reconfigured via a 1992 Director’s Cut, and later Scott’s definitive Final Cut, that its masterpiece status was assured, sitting alongside Fritz Lang’s Metropolis and Kubrick’s 2001 in the pantheon of world-building sci-fi. Late-in-the-day recuts didn’t help, adding an explanatory narration and dopey happy ending following negative test screenings. Now universally accepted as a classic, Ridley Scott’s future-noir fantasy (from an android-hunting novel by Philip K Dick) flopped in 1982, widely dismissed as an exercise in ravishing emptiness, as eye-catchingly hollow as Rachael, the glamorous “replicant” played by Sean Young. On the other hand, it’s possible it imagine this strange building being a crowded and dark city left stranded after some sort of disaster or being a secret mega-factory hidden in the wilds from which an army of replicants venture forth.Blade Runner may have shaped the future, but it’s easy to forget its past. It doesn’t feel traditionally Blade Runner-y. ![]() The art shows a towering fortress built into a mountain and surrounded by wilderness. Is this concept art from an official Blade Runner 2 film that was proposed and concerned before Blade Runner 2049, a different Blade Runner or just a personal project from Paul? On his Behance profile, Paul shared a collection called “Abandoned Blade Runner 02”. Based in Nantes, France, Chadeisson co-founded the independent video games company Ragequit corporation and as an artist has worked on projects like Cyberpunk 2077, Blade Runner: Black Out 2022, Final Fantasy XV and Call of Duty.īlade Runner: Black Out 2022 is an anime sequel to Blade Runner (or prequel to Blade Runner 2049) which debuted on Crunchyroll. Paul Chadeisson is an experienced concept artist and designer. ![]()
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