Back in February, Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment issued a July 31, 2025 release date forBlade Runner 2, which would have put the long-awaited sci-fi sequel up againstSherlock Gnomesand an untitled 20th Century Fox/Marvel adventure. It seems that the movie is coming along ahead of schedule, though, with the studio pushing the sequel back to June 15, 2025. Ironically, the movie will now go up against a different untitled 20th Century Fox/Marvel movie, along with an untitled Warner Bros. “event film.”
Alcon Entertainment’s sequel toRidley Scott’s 1982 masterpieceBlade Runner, starringRyan Gosling,Harrison Ford,Robin WrightandDave Bautista, will be released in North America byWarner Bros., and Sony Pictures Releasing International will distribute in all overseas territories in all media. The film will be directed byDenis Villeneuve(Sicario,Prisoners). Principal photography is scheduled to begin July 2016.
The sequel, set several decades after the original, is written byHampton FancherandMichael Green, and succeeds the initial story byFancherandDavid Peoplesbased onPhilip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. Story details are not being revealed. Multi-Oscar nominated cinematographerRoger Deakins(Sicario,Prisoners) will reunite withVilleneuveon the project.
Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights toBlade Runnerin 2011 from the late producerBud YorkinandCynthia Sikes Yorkinto produceprequels and sequelsto the iconic science-fiction thriller.Cynthia Sikes Yorkinwill produce along withJohnsonandKosove.Bud Yorkinwill receive producer credit.Ridley Scottwill serve as Executive Producer.Frank GiustraandTim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will also serve as executive producers along withBill Carraro.
Among its many distinctions,Blade Runnerhas been singled out as one of the greatest movies of all time by innumerable polls and media outlets, and overwhelmingly as the greatest science-fiction film of all time by a majority of genre publications. Released in 1982 by Warner Bros. Pictures,Blade Runnerserved asRidley Scott’s follow-up to his landmark film,Alien. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards (Best Visual Effects, and Best Art Direction) and is now regarded by media and cineastes as one of the greatest movies of all time and the defining vision of thecyberpunkgenre.
