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'Blade Runner 2049' Will Answer Whether Deckard Is A Replicant Or Not

One of the big questions from the original Blade Runner was whether or not Deckard (Harrison Ford) was a replicant. There have been thesis statements and essays and debates following the movie since it first came out and now that we're getting a sequel people are left wondering if we're going to get that question answered. Director Denis Villeneuve says we aren't getting that answer in Blade Runner 2049 but in a new interview with Ridley Scott over at IGN Scott says Deckard is a replicant and the sequel will address that.

Oh, it was always my thesis theory. It was one or two people who were relevant were… I can't remember if Hampton agreed with me or not. But I remember someone had said, "Well, isn't it corny?" I said, "Listen, I'll be the best f***ing judge of that. I'm the director, okay?" So, and that, you learn — you know, by then I'm 44, so I'm no f***ing chicken. I'm a very experienced director from commercials and The Duelists and Alien. So, I'm able to, you know, answer that with confidence at the time, and say, "You know, back off, it's what it's gonna be." Harrison, he was never — I don't remember, actually. I think Harrison was going, "Uh, I don't know about that." I said, "But you have to be, because Gaff, who leaves a trail of origami everywhere, will leave you a little piece of origami at the end of the movie to say, 'I've been here, I left her alive, and I can't resist letting you know what's in your most private thoughts when you get drunk is a f***ing unicorn!'" Right? So, I love Beavis and Butthead, so what should follow that is "Duh." So now it will be revealed [in the sequel], one way or the other.

This is a series that lives and dies by symbolism so there is a chance that no one is going to out right answer the question but if you're looking the answer is there.

Summary: Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

Blade Runner 2049, directed by Denis Villeneuve, stars Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Robin Wright, and Jared Leto. It will be released on October 6, 2017.

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