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BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Featurette

Blade Runner Prequels & Sequels On It's Way

Alcon Entertainment, the company behind The Blind Side , is looking to bring the world of Blade Runner back to the big-screen. The 1982 cult classic, which was directed by Ridley Scott and starred Harrison Ford , was based on a Philip K. Dick novel titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep . The company is in final negotiations to acquire the secure film, television and ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic 1982 science-fiction thriller. Alcon is getting the film rights from Bud Yorkin, who was an exec producer on the original 1982 movie. The story is set in a future where man has created clones called replicants who are used for dangerous work. When they rebel on a space colony, replicants are banned and hunted down. The movie centered on Rick Dekkard, a retired member of a police officer corps called blade runners who them hunt down on Earth. Dekkard is called back to duty one more time to track six clones who escape a colony and co

Len Wiseman To Direct Total Recall Remake

Len Wiseman To Direct Total Recall Remake Len Wiseman is set to direct the remake of Total Recall . He wrote several of the Underworld films and directed two of them, he also directed the action packed Live Free or Die Hard. But the best part of his life is that he gets to wake up next to Kate Beckinsale . For all you out there who were to young or have never heard of the film it was based on It is based on the Philip K. Dick story " We Can Remember It for You Wholesale . " The plot concerns an apparently unsophisticated construction worker, Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger), who turns out to be a freedom fighter from Mars who has been relocated to Earth, and his attempts to restore order, and reverse the corrupt influence of commercial powers. Please Leave A Comment-