Blade Runner remains to this day one of the most immersive science fiction worlds ever created - it's one of those films (like Apocalypse Now or Gravity) where you could happily sit there unblinking for the whole thing and only remember you're in a cinema at the end of the closing credits. From the opening shots of 2019 Los Angeles, a prediction which perhaps seems less believable today than it did 32 years ago, interspersed with flashes of the giant eye, to the final rooftop confrontation and closing scenes of Deckard and Rachael, the film is stunning. Now why wouldn't we want that in 3D? With a sequel now in the works (God help us), and Ridley Scott reported to say his experiences with 3D on Prometheus made him vow to never shoot in 2D again, it stands to reason that Blade Runner 2 will be released in 3D alongside a re-release of the original. So.. 3D? Scott, like a gritty George Lucas, has already gone back to Blade Runner multiple times, releasing the Director's Cut in 1997 and the Final Cut ten years later, and with him now revisiting the worlds of Alien (in Prometheus) and Blade Runner, there is a fair chance that this hope may become a reality before 2019 when the Replicants take over the film industry. On top of this, Scott already included a nod to 3D technology in the film with his Esper machine, used by Deckard to move around a 3D space in a photograph. Could we be treated to another 3D picture in 3D like Doctor Who's The Day Of The Doctor? Let's hope so!
I'm a British filmmaker (or, at least, trying to be) and about to graduate with a Film Studies degree. Most of the time I should spend working is actually on Netflix so I obviously have loads of life experience to share with you lovely people.
