Blade Runner 2: 10 Questions That Need Answering

Friday was a big news day for Blade Runner fans: not only was it confirmed that Harrison Ford would return as Rick Deckard - the antihero at the centre of Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi masterpiece - for a Blade Runner sequel, but it was revealed that Denis Villeneuve, director of Prisoners and Enemy, was coming on board to helm the new film. With this came the announcement that the screenplay - by original Blade Runner co-writer Hampton Fancher, along with Green Lantern screenwriter Michael Green - was ready to go, and that the film would begin shooting some time next year. Now is going to be a time rife with speculation. After fans have first got past the fury they might feel over Blade Runner getting a sequel at all (the questions of "was there any need?" and "why does Ridley Scott keep doing this to his own films?" need to be out of the way first), they can begin to mull over what a new Blade Runner film could bring. Right now, there's very little information to go on at all. What's certain is the original Blade Runner left a lot of questions unanswered, some of which will simply have to be addressed in the new film if it's to have connective tissue with the original movie.