Alcon Entertainment announced Wednesday that the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic sci-fi masterpiece will open on October 6, 2017, instead of January 12 of the following year.
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When Blade Runner 2 was first announced, their initial release date was far away in 2018. That’s jut a couple months before the release of Star Wars: Episode XIII in December.
Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners) is directing the film, with principal photography scheduled to begin this July.
The new release date puts it up against an untitled Marvel film and an unnamed Warner Bros.
Harrison Ford as Detective Rick Deckard in a scene from the 1982 film Blade Runner.
Scott will executive produce alongside Thunderbird Films’ Frank Giustra and Tom Gamble, and Bill Carraro.
Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to BLADE RUNNER in 2011 from the late producer Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic science-fiction thriller. He’s joined by Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright and Dave Bautista.
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Hampton Fancher and David Peoples penned the script for the original Blade Runner movie, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Fancher is returning to write the sequel with Michael Green.
