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18 Jun 2008 |
So, how is Pixar's
movie Wall-E in any way like Blade Runner (apart from people
having moved Off-World). Well, according to Wired,
"In a round-table
interview at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville, California,
earlier this week, director Andrew Stanton revealed his desire
to create a science fiction movie in the spirit of Stanley
Kubrick's 2001, Ridley Scott's neo-noir Blade
Runner and space-western Outland." The
retro-future look. Incidentally, of the several films listed
on the page, you should definitely have seen all of them. If
you haven't, you know what to rent this weekend! |
18 Jun 2008 |
Here is another
event review, but this time much more news and more detailed
- by a fan. Darth Mojo was at the Paul's Brain Trust event
(Paul
Prischman helped put together your BR 5-Disc DVD set).
This event was held at Warner's backlot and included a showing
of the film plus panel discussion afterwards including the
likes of Scott and Fancher. Nice to see the two of them still
don't completely agree on the Deck-a-Rep issue! Strangest comment
- not only was there the influence of old Batman and Superman
comics, but also Little Orphan Annie. Yeah ... scary stuff!
Read
the article.
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18 Jun 2008 |
A little while
ago I mentioned there would be a concert at the Royal Festival
Hall (London) with the Heritage Orchestra playing Vangelis'
music from Blade Runner (mixed by Massive Attack). This
is London has a review
of the concert - sounds like it was pretty good. Also read
abbatozappa,
Guardian,
Londonist. |
17 Jun 2008 |
FWIW, here are
the American Film Institute's Top 10 films in 10 genres.
Blade Runner is listed at number 6 in the Science Fiction category. |
16 Jun 2008 |
Well, this cannot
be a surprise - at the fourth annual DVD Critics Awards, Blade
Runner was awarded Best Director's Cut winner AND Best
of Show winner (Best of Show - Best Overall Home
Video Release of 2007). |
16 Jun 2008 |
Sci Fi Channel's
Visions
for Tomorrow site has the results of a poll asking
us to pick the Top Things You Must
Read, Watch And Do To Save The World. It would
appear that seeing how badly it can go wrong is the incentive
we need to make sure we don't let that happen! Top film - Blade
Runner. |
14 Jun 2008 |
Wired
blog talks
to Benny Boeldt about his music inspired by (and sounding like)
video game music. Listen to "Poison Diamonds" for those ever
popular Roy Batty samples. |
11 Jun 2008 |
Following half-off
discounts on many Blu-Ray DVDs by Amazon, Blade Runner hits
4th place on their Movies/TV chart. This is combined with general
price drops in Blu-Ray players. I guess we are no longer in
the "Early Adopter" phase! |
11 Jun 2008 |
How do you feel
about our future? Pessimistic? Or do you have faith that things
can only get better? According to the 2007 Pew Global Attitudes
Project survey, the majority of those surveyed in several Western
countries think their kids' lives will be worse than theirs.
Peter Schwartz argues in the LA
Times that this is a view that
can be changed. Or will we really end up in the BR dystopia? |
10 Jun 2008 |
Wired
blog finds
Atomic
Tarantula, a T-Shirt seller with subtle SF themed shirts.
Look for Tyrell Corp. |
08 Jun 2008 |
I include this
NY
Times article as it is an interesting subject - intimate
relations between Human and artificial human. However, I suspect
the author is much more philosopher than scientist and certainly
looking in on this world from outside. Still
has plenty to initiate discussion (or fierce debate!). |
08 Jun 2008 |
Just caught wind
that on 17 June, London's Southbank will have a Blade Runner
Vangelis music concert performance by the Heritage Orchestra
with a mix done by Massive Attack. Sounds awesome if you can
get there. The BFI IMAX will also have two showings of the
Blade Runner film. |
08 Jun 2008 |
It takes a kind
of "Back to the Future" mindset to look at the future of our
cityscapes as seen in films made in the past. To some extent
drawing on elements that were evident even when the films were
made (esp. those using real locations), we now have the viewpoint
of being in the future from the past perspective, while in
our present and yet looking at a still-to-come future concept.
Okay, never mind that, check out the NY
Times article. |
07 Jun 2008 |
Anyone else watching
(or has watched in the past) Charlie Jade?
A Canadian/South African collaboration set initially in and
around Cape Town (where I lived for a while so it brings back
memories for me). Except, not just Cape Town in our universe
as it is a parallel universe show. We are in the Betaverse.
The Alphaverse where the lead character (detective) comes from
is way more technologically advanced, BladeRunneresque even
(euphemistically a deliberate "homage"),
with big Corps having exploited and depleted the planet's resources,
they want to plunder the aternate universes worlds now. The
Gammaverse is the exact opposite and has looked after their
resources, so their world is still beautiful. Some people travel
back and forth, make allies/enemies etc. and Charlie is caught
up in it all trying to make sense of it. Apparently there are
20 episodes and it looks like one of those series where you
need to watch several in order to really get into it. |
06 Jun 2008 |
You may have
thought the jumpsuit was dead and buried, but like cinema,
fashion is always dredging up the past and reinventing it.
The
Star comments on this with picture of the "Blade Runner"
style silver, one-shouldered jumpsuit. Yeah, still a real pain
to go to the loo though (not that I have personal experience
of dealing with that...) |
05 Jun 2008 |
If you like the
concept in BR of combining Film Noir with Science Fiction,
then you may be interested in Yesterday
Was a Lie, which is
currently wowing people at film festivals all over (and winning
lots of awards as well). It certainly looks intriguing. |
03 Jun 2008 |
Eclipse Magazine
interviews Ridley Scott. The first half is mostly about the
miniseries for which he is Exec Producer: Andromeda
Strain and related issues. Then the question:
"You directed Blade Runner and Alien,
which are seminal science fiction films. Why have you not done
more science fiction films?"
"RIDLEY SCOTT: I am going to do one.
I waited for a book for 20 years and I have got the book. I
am not going to tell you what the book is but that film is
going to probably be written within the next month. That will
definitely be what I do next after Nottingham, the Robin Hood
film that I am doing now in England."
Hmmm, what could that SF book be? Well I can answer that
as it is no big secret that for years he has been chasing Brave
New World by Aldous Huxley. A difficult
estate split was resolved earlier this year to allow the film
to go ahead, as mentioned in The
Sunday Times in March: "The
Universal Studios movie, which Sir Ridley Scott wants to direct,
has become possible only because years of wrangling over the
terms of Huxley's
will have finally been settled, his granddaughter Tessa confirmed
last week. 'There is now nothing stopping this film,' she said."
The lead should be Leonardo DiCaprio as his father George,
an old friend of the Huxley family, has long since been listed
as producer. |
01 Jun 2008 |
"If
you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping
on a human face." This is the George Orwell quote
that John W. Whitehead uses to start his article on
how much of Orwell's dystopian vision is now in effect. He also lists
10 films (most of which I own on DVD) that exemplify the best
of the worst (including Blade Runner, Brazil, 1984). |
31 May 2008 |
According to
SFFMedia, "The French production
company Celluloid Dreams has obtained the movie rights to Philip
K. Dick's science fiction novel Ubik." Possibly
my favourite PKD novel and hopefully this film will take the
more thinking SF approach than Action vehicle. Not an easy
book to film, but has great potential to be an excellent film
- we can only hope. |
28 May 2008 |
PAUL'S BRAIN
TRUST LAUNCHES NEXUS 6 LEVEL FUNDRAISING EVENT:
BURBANK, CA – Paul Prischman, unquestionably "one
of the good ones" - dedicated husband, father, and friend;
DVD producer; gifted artist; comic book lover; musician; and
worshipper at the altar of all things film - was recently diagnosed
with grade IV brain cancer.
Paul's Brain Trust, an effort to fundraise for our friend
Paul and his family during this difficult time, has put together
our first major event: a screening of BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL
CUT, attended by several cast and crew, and followed by a Q&A
with director Ridley Scott, at the Steven J. Ross Theater on
the Warner Bros. lot, Saturday, June 14th at 2:00 pm
I've put the full announcement on its own
page. Please read it. |
27 May 2008 |
"A
team of more than 50 international academics have named Stanley
Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey as the science fiction film with the
most realistic vision of the future of mankind." (Albeit
a past future!) The article expands
on this, BR and Andromeda Strain and concludes, "The
scientists polled as part of the Sky Movies study also voted
2001: A Space Odyssey as the film they most admired for its
use of science and Blade Runner as the best science fiction
film." Sounds familiar ... ah yes, BBC -
August 2004, "Blade Runner tops scientist
poll". |
25 May 2008 |
All BR fans who
have delved into the making of the film should certainly know
who Gene Winfield is. Whether you do or don't, I recommend
you read Custom
car king, 81, still going full-bore. |
24 May 2008 |
While Sonny Astani
waits for approval to build his super-enormous LED billboard
in Los angeles, The
NY Times reports on the current hugest
LED billboard going up in Times Square. |
23 May 2008 |
In the last of
the Flux
Capacitor column at 411mania, Owain J. Brimfield dares to try to
pick the best SF films ever. But as he puts Blade Runner at
number 1, I guess they deserve a mention... |
22 May 2008 |
So what do you
think of those giant moving-image billboards on the skyscrapers
in BR's L.A. 2019? Cool, but who would actually put such things
up in the first place? The answer is Sonny Astani. The IHT
tells us that Mr Astani was inspired by BR back in 1982 and
still is. Now that he is a successful real estate developer,
he wants to put LED billboards on the sides of his current
30-story residential tower projects in downtown Los Angeles.
Syd Mead commented "that the city's
once-haunted look is what inspired Scott to film there. The
director was also taken with the eclectic downtown mix of newer
structures and historic buildings, he said. That the movie
could inspire innovation is not a surprise, Mead said, adding,
'I've called science fiction reality ahead of schedule.'" |
21 May 2008 |
Victor Kubicek
and Derek Anderson are SF and gaming fans. They earned some
money and despite having no actual experience in the movie
or gaming businesses, they decided to start a company called
Halcyon to make films and games. They acquired the Terminator
franchise and are now making the next Terminator trilogy of
films with Christian Bale signed up for all three. Wow! But
nothing compared to the Guardian's
news that they have "secured
first option on filming the still largely untapped works of
science fiction writer Philip K Dick". What? Hollywood
is drooling over the many PKD stories still to be ... exploited. "Philip's
daughters have never allowed anyone this kind of access before," said
Kubicek. "We've forged a very trusting
relationship with them and we truly share a similar sensibility.
Until we closed the deal we didn't realise how coveted the
library was in Hollywood." Incredible! They already
have plans for films and games in the works. I presume these
are only the rights for all the PKD stuff not already made
into movies/games so don't expect them to be the ones
to give us the new Blade Runner Game. |
19 May 2008 |
The Wired
Gadget Lab has found Gigapan -
the billion pixel image maker that allows you to zoom in
and around a picture rather like Deckard using an ESPER!
This is Shooo Koool! |
18 May 2008 |
In an interview
of Harrison Ford for SFGate, mainly about Indiana Jones and
the Kingdom ofthe Crystal Skull, a casual Blade Runner
question is thrown in and elicits an interesting response: Q: "Blade Runner" has
had an incredible second life. It's got a huge cult following,
and the director, Ridley Scott, has continued to work on
it - he put out a director's cut in 1992, and a more recent "final
cut." A: I always thought it
was an important film in my history. It was very important
to me when it came out, even though it wasn't very successful
at the time. I admired a great deal of it, the storytelling
was a little vague in some areas, and I think in Ridley's
version, the latest version, it's a bit more clear and focused.
And I think it's a terrific movie. I'm just waiting for it
to make money.
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8 May 2008 |
With Mother's
Day approaching for some of you, SFGate has a little levity
for you. |
If
you see a Blade Runner article not listed, please send
me the
link so I can add it.
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