A few days ago came word that Harrison Ford was in talks to join Ridley Scott on the Blade Runner sequel. It looks as if that is not strictly true so you can breath easily.
Deadline had the news that lcon Entertainment, the producer/financier teaming with director Ridley Scott is adamantly denying the news that Ford would be back as Deckard. Andrew Kosove, who runs Alcon with Broderick Johnson, said he and his partner couldn’t sit by as the unsubstantiated report spread like wildfire all over the world.
“It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner,” Kosove said. “To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story, figure out the direction we’re going to take the movie and find a writer to work on it. The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment.”
Kosove said they didn’t want in any way to disparage an iconic actor like Ford. “It’s like asking if we’re going to make the sky red or blue, there has been no discussion about it,” he said. “What Ridley does in Prometheus is a good template for what we’re trying to do. He created something that has some association to the original Alien, but lives on its own as a standalone movie.” Asked point blank if Ford could resurface, Kosove said: “In advance of knowing what we’re going to do, I supposed you could say yes, he could. But I think it is quite unlikely.”
Are you happy or sad that Ford probably won’t be in a Blade Runner sequel?
