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Goal:
To mix the original 1982 Blade Runner with 2017's Blade Runner 2049, making one compelling movie (within a reasonable running time). The focus of the film will be about replicants ability to love and have children / create life. I propose intercutting the two films, so when Deckard is going through his investigations, so is K. "BLADE RUNNERS" is a working title, but as good as any. (Note, I have another edit "Blade Runner 2049: The Lifespan Cut" over in the pending approval forum, but this project is unrelated to that).
Changes I propose to Blade Runner:
- Focus on Deckard & Rachael's romance.
- Minimalise scenes with periphery characters from the first film (Leon, Zhora, JF, Tyrell etc).
- Focus on Batty's love for Pris and, at the end, his love of life in general.
Changes I propose to Blade Runner 2049:
- Entirely remove the replicant army subplot. This means no Wallace, no Freysa, no Luv, no Mariette.
- Make Sapper Morton's character more sympathetic by adding the "Nowhere to Run" short. I'd like to imply that Sapper alone is the man who helped Deckard and Rachael during the childbirth: "You older models are happy scraping the shit because you've never seen a miracle".
- Due to time restrictions, remove K's girlfriend Joi. It might have been useful to leave some of this in to tie into the "love" theme, but I don't want this to become a 4 hour epic.
- Remove anything that supercedes the technology present in the first film, i.e the eyeball scanning instead of the V.K test. I'm also thinking of removing any reference to the unlimited lifespan that newer models have. This is to make the two time periods feel more interconnected and make the film flow a better without having to explain how the technology has changed over time.
The original Blade Runner had magnificent visuals but you can obviously tell it's an old film now. To combat this, I'm considering presenting the footage from the original film in black & white and footage from 2049 in full colour. This will help differetiate between past and present for the viewer, also.
Here's a test intro I've put together:
The climax of the film I see as flitting between the fight with Deckard/Batty and the fight with Deckard/K. Anyone who has seen the excellent Alien/Prometheus fanedit "Derelict" by JobWillins will have some idea of what I'm going for. The epilogue of the film would be K deciding to take Deckard to his daugther, rather than turn him and his child over to the police.
The biggest hurdle I'm having is how to deal with the reveal that Ana is Deckard's child, not K, as this edit won't have the scene with the one-eyed woman (Freysa) telling him he's not the child. My thinking is... if I remove the line about Ana Stelline's parents leaving her on earth, is it enough to allow the viewer to assume the following:
- Ana never had any adoptive parents and so yearns to find her real ones. However, due to her immune system she is stuck in a cage and needs an ally to help her. She does this by implanting a police replicant (K) with her memories in the hopes that one day he will track down the wooden horse.
- (With the above considered) Being a cop, K figures out she is Deckard's daugther "off camera" and the reveal is at the end when K takes Deckard to her lab. Or perhaps retain the flashback "there's a bit of every artist in their work" line.
Sadly the more you think about these plot elements of BR2049, the more the original movie falls down, so a heavilty edited version of these events could be even more confusing. Anyone have any suggestions?