Rebecca Kegan has an article in
Vanity Fair about
Bladerunner 2049:
It’s Wednesday, and I’m looking for fashion-forward, hard-soled, closed-toe shoes to wear to the Academy Museum construction site. More on that tomorrow.
Hello from Los Angeles, California, where we’re whispering about Blade Runner, preparing for the return of Empire, and overbooking Leonardo DiCaprio.
Warner Bros. has begun screening Blade Runner 2049 for journalists; a passel of us piled into the Dolby screening room in Burbank, California on Tuesday, and many others saw the more than two-and-a-half-hour film in New York City. The review embargo for Denis Villeneuve’s anticipated sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 science-fiction neo-noir doesn’t lift until Monday, ahead of its opening on 6 October 2017, but the studio is obviously confident about the film’s quality, and is already allowing the press to blurt out review-adjacent reactions on social media. Let’s just say the “M” words (as in “masterpiece” and “mind-blowing”) are coming up a lot, as are calls for its thirteen-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer, Roger Deakins, to finally collect a little gold statue. Deakins was most recently nominated for his previous two collaborations with Villeneuve, Prisoners and Sicario, as well as his work on Unbroken. As The Wall Street Journal’s Ben Fritz points out in a comprehensive piece about the making of the movie: “Perhaps more than any big budget movie this year, the success or failure of Blade Runner 2049 will depend on what critics and early viewers think. Given the incredibly high regard in which fans hold the original, word-of-mouth could be vicious if the follow-up falls short.” Like the rest of the Hollywood press corps, I have sworn to surrender my firstborn, a charming lab-Doberman mix, rather than say anything that could be construed as a review; Vanity Fair’s Richard Lawson will deliver that for us next week. Instead I’ll just point out that, in an era where studios are grappling with how to peel audiences away from their Netflix queues and entice them to see movies on the biggest screen possible, Blade Runner 2049 does the most. If I hear any Academy members say they’re waiting for a screener for this one, I’ll introduce them to my charming lab-Doberman mix.
Rico says he's looking forward to seeing it.
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