The Year 2049
Where were you when Blade Runner 2049 became real? Los Angeles? Las Vegas? A bunker in the Nevada desert? A hollowed out hole in the dirt, lined with aluminum that doesn’t stave off radiation but you put up anyways? Did Trump do it? Did Obama? Putin? Whatever iteration of Kim runs North Korea?
Or maybe you were just in a movie theater and art didn’t imitate life this time.
Before the film arrives in October, Big Movie has a little teaser thing. Not a trailer or a teaser but some sorta preview of it all that’s long enough to warrant watching. It references the year 2036, which comes before 2049 and could be important for us all. Something happened that year. This is what.
Blade Runner 2036 Nexus Dawn short film
Hey, look, this is the synopsis provided by Warner Bros.
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.
From executive producer Ridley Scott and director Denis Villeneuve, #BladeRunner2049 stars Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana De Armas, MacKenzie Davis, Sylvia Hoeks, Lennie James, Carla Juri, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto.
