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 "I accepted to do 'Blade Runner' because it was
meaningful," Villeneuve, the director of last year's cerebral
alien sci-fi film "Arrival," told Reuters.
"The resonance of the first movie in my life, the love I have
for it, it's worth it to take that risk," he added.
"Blade Runner 2049," in theaters on Oct. 6, will pick up 30
years after the events of the first movie, when human-like
robots were hunted by police in a dystopian Los Angeles.
"We created a world that is an extension of the first movie, a
projection of its future, where some laws and some rules will be
in relationship with the first movie and not with today,"
Villeneuve said.
The first film followed Harrison Ford as "blade runner" Rick
Deckard, an expert on hunting the humanoid Replicant robots
living on earth illegally, against a backdrop of a futuristic
Los Angeles depicted as a hybrid of Eastern and Western cultural
influences.
In a new trailer released this week, the sequel returns to a
dystopian California after the ecosystem has broken down, where
a Los Angeles police officer (Ryan Gosling) stumbles upon a
secret that could jeopardize society and seeks out Deckard, who
has been missing for 30 years.
Villeneuve, Ford and Gosling were joined by other cast members
on Saturday at San Diego's annual Comic-Con as they discussed
the sequel and debuted new footage that showed a world where
Replicants and humans live alongside each other, but not in
harmony.
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 "The original film explored the ethics of the
creation of the Replicants and their utility and we further
developed those themes in this story," Ford said.
Villeneuve told Reuters that he had worked with Ford to evolve
the character of Deckard.
"There's a melancholia that I like in the first movie that we
kept alive in Deckard, and something taciturn, not someone who
talks a lot, and a sadness to the character that is there and
existential doubt," the director said.
The sequel will stay close to the original film's themes of
identity and memory, Villeneuve added.
"I don't think the movie will necessarily say interesting things
about our future, apart from the fact we're still there, but
it'll say things about today, for sure," he said.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; editing by Leslie Adler, G Crosse)
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