When Arrival made the awards-season rounds last year, director Denis Villeneuve was already eyebrows-deep into making Blade Runner 2049, the Ryan Gosling-led sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult favorite, Blade Runner.
To do a movie like Blade Runner requires a lot of energy and a lot of stamina, and I have it right now.
That’s the big difference from smaller movies, when you move from chamber orchestra to symphonic orchestra and have everyone play the same tune.
With Blade Runner, you inherited a pre-existing visual world.
The most difficult thing I’ve ever done was to take someone else’s dream and make it my own.
Surely, they are my movies; I consider Blade Runner to be as close to me as Incendies.
“You walk nine steps this way, five steps this way, now stop—or else you will fall in the water.”. »