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   Nexus 7 to All   
   Re: Ridley Scott teases Blade Runner 2 w   
   14 Oct 12 21:00:49   
   
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   From: nexus@7.com   
      
   On Sun, 14 Oct 2012 09:33:47 -0700 (PDT), robert    
   wrote (extra newsgroups snipped):   
      
   >On Oct 12, 7:10 pm, BillV2...@webtv.net (The Void Era Man) wrote:   
   >   
   >> Ridley Scott teases Blade Runner 2 will answer our big question   
   >> Tweet   
   >> According to Ridley Scott, the much-talked-about sequel to Blade Runner   
   >> is definitely happening "and he's hinting that it will answer the   
   >> one question that fans of the first film have been debating for 30   
   >> years.   
   >> That question, of course, is whether Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a   
   >> replicant, and when asked by Metro UK whether the sequel is actually   
   >> moving forward, Scott says:   
   >> It's not a rumour—it's happening. With Harrison Ford? I don't know   
   >> yet. Is he too old? Well, he was a Nexus-6 so we don't know how long he   
   >> can live [laughs]. And that's all I'm going to say at this stage.   
   >> Did Sir Ridley just give away the answer right there? The guys at Rope   
   >> Of Silicon seem to think so, and as their video evidence (see below)   
   >> shows, the director has shared his belief before that the detective was   
   >> in fact a replicant.   
   >> But up until now, that's just been Scott's interpretation—the   
   >> beauty of Blade Runner is that it is open to many different ones. Yet   
   >> here is Scott hinting that the sequel itself may address the issue   
   >> explicitly by bringing up how long Deckard can live if he's not human.   
   >> Do you think that's what is going on in this interview? More   
   >> importantly, do you really want to know the answer, or would you prefer   
   >> to have Deckard's true nature kept ambiguous?   
   >> -- shit snipped --   
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   >whats this shit?   
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