Blade Runner 2: 10 Questions That Need Answering

4. Will It Make Reference To The Blade Runner 'Sidequel' Soldier?

Paul WS Anderson's Soldier, a 1998 sci-fi actioner set in a colonised galaxy about a group of orphans raised as super-soldiers, bears some of Blade Runner's DNA, and for good reason: it was produced by the same production company and written by the co-writer of Blade Runner, David Webb Peoples, who considers it a 'sidequel' or 'spiritual predecessor'. There are also plenty of nods to Blade Runner (a spinner here, dialogue references to Philip K. Dick and the film there) within the movie. Will the Blade Runner sequel return the favour and give Soldier a shout-out? Given the film came in for a critical drubbing (also add the fact that it's largely been forgotten since), it's unlikely, though it can't be ruled out - the option to take things off-world, as Soldier does, for the Blade Runner sequel may prove too tempting for the creative team behind the new film...