Gladiator;
"The End of the Road";
Black Hawk Down;
Heaven Dynasty;
The Martian.
Ridley Scott, who made these high-scoring films, even though he is nearly 85 years old, has no intention of slowing down his film career.
Not only did he hand over the star-studded blockbusters of "The Last Duel" and "Gucci Family" in one fell swoop last year, but he also intended to continue to build the two universes opened by him.
"Alien" and "Blade Runner".
Countless audiences are still waiting for the next sequel movie in the Alien series he created, and he has not given up.
Due to Disney's acquisition of the original film Foss, the change of the owner led to the adjustment of the project plan, and the third part of the original prequel trilogy has not been followed. However, when promoting "The Last Duel", Lao Lei revealed that the drama version of "Alien" is already in preparation, just waiting for disney to officially announce the green light.
Unexpectedly, the good news of the alien had not yet arrived, and Old Ray's other universe was a step ahead.
Authoritative foreign media Deadline reported that Amazon Streaming Media is about to launch a drama version of "Blade Runner".
It will be a "proper sequel" that continues the plot of the two feature films that already exist, set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049.
So the title of the play is called "Blade Runner 2099".
In fact, this is also the project that Lao Lei also mentioned when he said the drama version of "Alien", and it is expected that there will be 10 episodes, a total of about 10 hours.
For this news, some fans may remain cautious rather than just open champagne to celebrate.
The anime series "Blade Runner: Black Lotus" that belongs to the main stream has a poor reputation, which is what happened not long ago;
Due to the content and depth of the story, there is a gap with the two films with very high reputation, even if it is aesthetically considered to be the taste of the "Blade Universe", it cannot be recognized by the audience in the end.
There are comments that say, let this IP go.
Originally, developing old IP is a difficult task, and the success rate is not very high.
Blade Runner 2049 was an "accident," while Blade Runner: Black Lotus returned to the "expected" level.
Why does Hollywood keep spoiling the classics, released on January 2 this year? The article has already talked about a lot, and if you are interested, you can go to further reading.
Here it is said that the same Amazon investment and development of the drama version of "The Lord of the Rings", the stills have just been sent, and the sound of spit immediately appeared.
It's not just a matter of actor selection, the texture given by the stills is a bit out of touch with the Middle-earth world created by Peter Jackson.
But there is no need to be overly pessimistic, "Blade Runner 2099" confirmed Ridley Scott as a producer, and his participation in the series is much higher than that of Blade Runner: Black Lotus.
"Black Lotus" was created by a Japanese production team, and Lao Lei seems to have no name for supervising the production.
The word-of-mouth success of "Blade Runner 2049", Lao Lei personally went to the set, and his participation can be imagined.
And as early as the beginning of 2018, Old Ray revealed that he had the idea of continuing to shoot sequels.
Maybe it was because "Blade Runner 2049" was not doing well at the box office at the time, Warner was unwilling to spend money on it, and then Amazon took over, and finally became the current series.
Then this is the third prototype from Lao Lei's idea, and the quality construction can still have a good foundation.
Of course, director Dennis Villeneuve is an absolute hero;
And don't forget the Oscar for Best Cinematography Roger Deakins.
The aesthetic style they have built is absolutely perfectly inherited from 1982's Blade Runner, using more advanced technology to shoot more elaborate and beautiful pictures.
What's more, the script benefited from Hampton Vancher's return to writing, so the core depth was quite good.
Therefore, whether "Blade Runner 2099" can be expected to have as many original people from the film as the creative team can get.
The writers have tentatively identified Shirka Luisa for Shining Girl, and hopefully more heavyweights will join her later.
It's just that Dennis Villeneuve's focus is already on the Dune series, and his return is unlikely. The biggest luxury now is that Old Ray can direct an episode himself and set the tone.
Like the episode "Alien Catastrophe" that Lao Lei personally went down, there was a good response at the beginning of the broadcast, and it is a pity that it was not held in the later stage.
The "Blade Universe" already has two feature films, as well as several spin-offs.
In addition to "Black Lotus", Dennis Villeneuve also supervised three short films when he produced "2049".
2022 Dark Havoc (anime);
Dawn of the Replicants 2036;
"2048 Nowhere to Escape";
The world view and timeline of the series are thus more perfect.
"2049" has left narrative space for the sequel.
The protagonist K's story seems to have come to an end, but the ambitions of the villain Wallace are still on the way, and it is doubtful where the replicant rebel forces that K has come into contact with are going.
Blade Runner 2099, which is long enough, may tell more about the competition between humans, Wallace, and the resistance forces, so that the pattern will be more grand and can be developed into the label of "big drama".
If you look at it from the perspective of the industry, it is absolutely good news that Blade Runner 2049 can be continued.
This means that the conventional practice of determining the fate of IP in the past has the opportunity to be broken.
Streaming offers another avenue, where there is a different audience.
Just like the poor box office "The Last Duel", when it comes to streaming on demand, the lead actor Ben Affleck said that in fact, such a slow-paced movie is not that no one watches, but that people who watch it don't want to go to the theater anymore.
Perhaps, with the support of streaming media data, Old Ray's "Gladiator 2" can also get considerable investment?
"Blade Runner 2049" has always been a pain in the hearts of the majority of fans.
But who would have thought that the last thing that gave this IP a chance to counterattack was the streaming media that was once regarded as the public enemy of the theater.
Even if this has the disadvantageous possibility of destroying the classic IP, it cannot be ignored to give some high-quality masterpieces the opportunity to continue.
Some classics are indeed not better than shooting, and some high-quality works have not been able to continue the story, especially commercial production, which is really a pity.
For example, "District 9" and "I Am Legend" can only wait for the big factories to carefully allocate funds?
Wouldn't it be more fragrant to have one more choice for streaming channels?