“In
the dark and brutal Earth of the
future, thirty years after the events
of the first film, a new blade runner is
ordered to kill a special child, now
an adult, who should never have been
born, and to destroy all traces of its
family; but he begins to believe the
truth is much closer to home in
the spectacular sci-fi thriller Blade
Runner 2049...”
IN 2049 IN A WORLD RECOVERING FROM CATASTROPHIC war and peopled by humans
and Replicants — bio-engineered humanoids originally designed by
Tyrrell Corporation and identified by a number on their eyelids —
a young blade runner, Officer K (Ryan Gosling: La La Land; Drive) of
the Los Angeles Police Department discovers something buried next to a petrified
tree in the Californian wastelands that merits further investigation.
The dig team sent by his superior, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright: Wonder
Woman), discovers the remains of a woman and further tests reveal something
that was thought impossible, sending K — whose job it is to terminate rogue
Replicants — on a mission to track down and kill someone whose identity
he is yet to discover and that will lead him to former blade runner Rick Deckard
(Harrison Ford: The Star Wars films; Witness), who has been missing
for thirty years.
“Blade
Runner 2049
is spectacular;
a riveting dark and
violent vision of the
future...”
A
series of violent rebellions had led to a ban on the manufacture of Replicants
and hence Tyrrell Corporation's bankruptcy; but some of the old models have
survived and are still being hunted down to be terminated by blade runners.
After the collapse of eco systems in the mid-2020s, industrialist Niander Wallace
(Oscar-winner Jared Leto: Best Supporting Actor, Dallas Buyers Club,
2013) pioneered synthetic farming — preventing widespread famine —
and managed to salvage the ruins of Tyrell Corporation to create efficient and
obedient Replicants under his own name, the Wallace Corporation.
K returns home to a beautiful woman known as Joi (Ana de Armas: War Dogs),
a hologram who speaks softly, fetches his meals, answers his questions and is
very affectionate towards him. The perfect partner! He seems to care about her
very much and she gives him the name Joe.
K seems to have memories of a little wooden horse that some other children tried
to take from him and he hid. When his mission leads him from the Tyrell archives
to an orphanage run by Mister Cotton (Lennie James: Television's The Walking
Dead) his memories are further stirred and he may have discovered something
about himself.
In his bid to discover if his memories are real, K consults Dr Ana Stelline
(Carla Juri: Brimstone), who creates Replicant memories. Ana is locked
in a cage but is given images that might make her happy, including the illusion
of a forest with insects she may study.
With his boss now out to stop him, K finally tracks down Rick Deckard to a casino
in Las Vegas, but both men are in the utmost danger…
Based on characters from Philip K Dick's novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric
Sheep?, Blade Runner 2049 has received eight BAFTA nominations that
include Best Director, Original Music, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design,
Make-Up and Hair, Sound and Special Visual Effects. The film is spectacular;
a riveting dark and violent vision of the future with a terrific cast immersed
in character.
Blade Runner 2049 also features: Sylvia Hoeks (Renegades) as Luv;
Mackenzie Davis (The Martian) as Street Girl Mariette; Dave Bautista
(The Guardians Of The Galaxy films) as Sapper Morton; André Lukács Molnár
as The Memory Child; Sean Young as Rachael; Loren Peta as Rachael performance
double; Barkhad Abdi as Doc Badger; Ben Thompson as Elvis Lookalike; Suzie Kennedy
as Marilyn Monroe Lookalike; David Benson as Liberace Look-alike; and Stephen
Triffitt as Frank Sinatra Lookalike.
Music is by Benjamin Wallfisch & Hans Zimmer; Director of Photography is Roger
A Deakins, ASC, BSC; Produced by Academy Award-nominees Andrew A Kosove, Broderick
Johnson (Best Motion Picture of the Year, The Blind Side, 2009; three-time
Emmy-winner Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin; Multiple Academy Award-nominee
Ridley Scott (The Martian; Gladiator and the Director of the original
Blade Runner) is an Executive Producer; From a story by Hampton Fancher
and Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green; Directed by Academy Award-nominated
Director Denis Villeneuve (Best Achievement in Directing: Arrival, 2016).
The much-anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed film Blade Runner, Science
Fiction epic Blade Runner 2049 is available on Digital Download and Sky's
Buy & Keep Program on 28 January, 2018, and on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD and
Limited Edition 2-Disc Blu-ray in the UK, courtesy of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment,
on 5 February 2018. Certificate: 15 | Running Time: DVD Approximately 2 Hours
37 Minutes (Other Formats: Approximately 2 Hours 43 Minutes).
DVD Special Features
Blade Runner 101: Six Behind-the-Scenes Vignettes including The Replicant Evolution,
Welcome to 2049 and The Rise of Wallace Corp | Prologues: Bridge The Gap from
the first film with three original shots from directors Shinichirô Watanabe
and Luke Scott | 2036:Nexus Dawn, 6-minute short film directed
by Luke Scott | 2048: Nowhere To Run, 6-minute short film directed by
Luke Scott | 2022: Blackout, 15-minute short film directed by Shinichirô
Watanabe.
4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Special Features
Content as for DVD plus: Designing the World of Blade Runner —
an in-depth Behind-the-Scenes Featurette with Cast and Crew, including Director
Denis Villeneuve, Executive Producer Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.
Two-Disc Limited Edition Blu-ray Special Features Content as for DVD, Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD plus more than 30 minutes of
Exclusive Featurettes: To Be Human | Fights over the Future: The Action of Blade
Runner 2049 | Two Become One | Dressing The Skin: The Fashion of Blade Runner
2049 | Five Exclusive Art Cards Designed by Matt Ferguson.
* "Blade Runner 2049 is… spectacular;
a riveting dark and violent vision of the future" *****
— Maggie Woods, MotorBar
***** — The Telegraph, *****
— Total Film, ***** — The Independent,
***** — The Guardian , ***** —
Empire, ***** — BBC Radio One,
***** — London Evening Standard, *****
— Den of Geek
“In
the dark and brutal Earth of the