Blade Runner 2049

Blade Runner 2049

Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Actor: Ryan Gosling, Dave Bautista, Robin Wright, Mark Arnold
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Movie: Blade Runner 2049
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Duration: 163 min
Release: 2017

Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American neo-noir science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green.A sequel to the 1982 film Blade Runner, the film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, Lennie James, Dave Bautista and Jared Leto in supporting roles. Set thirty years after the original film, the story depicts a bioengineered human named K, who discovers the remains of a once-pregnant replicant. To prevent a possible war between replicants and humans, K is secretly tasked with finding the child and destroying all evidence related to it. Principal photography took place in Budapest, Hungary between July and November 2016. Blade Runner 2049 premiered in Los Angeles on October 3, 2017 and was released in the United States on October 6, 2017, in 2D, 3D and IMAX. The film received acclaim from critics, with some regarding it as one of the best sequels ever made, and has grossed $194 million worldwide. In 2049, bioengineered humans called replicants have been integrated into society as servants and slaves. K is a Nexus-9 replicant who works as a 'blade runner' for the LAPD, hunting down and 'retiring' rogue older model replicants. He lives with a holographic girlfriend Joi, an artificial intelligence product of the Wallace Corporation, the current manufacturer of replicants which bought out the bankrupt Tyrell Corporation, pioneer in this field. K's investigation into a growing replicant freedom movement leads him to a farm, where he retires rogue Nexus-8 replicant Sapper Morton and finds a buried box. A forensic analysis reveals the box contains the remains of a female Nexus-7 replicant who died during an emergency caesarean section. K's superior, Lieutenant Joshi, orders K to destroy all evidence related to the case and to retire the child, believing the knowledge that replicants are able to reproduce (which was thought to be impossible) could lead to an interspecies war. K visits the headquarters of Wallace Corporation, where the deceased female is identified from old DNA archives as Rachael, an experimental replicant designed by Dr. Tyrell before his death. K learns of Rachael's romantic ties with former veteran blade runner Rick Deckard. Seeking the secret to reproduction in replicants —which they are unable to duplicate— in order to expand his off-world operations, the company's CEO Niander Wallace sends his replicant enforcer Luv to steal Rachael's remains from LAPD headquarters and follow K to find Rachael's child. Returning to Morton's farm to destroy it, K finds Rachael's date of death, that he recognizes from one of his childhood memories about a wooden toy horse. Joi insists that this coincidence is evidence that K is a real person and not a replicant, which have implanted memories. While searching through birth records from that year, he discovers that twins were born on that day with identical DNA except for the sex chromosome, but only the boy is listed as alive. Tracking evidence of the child to an orphanage in ruined San Diego, K discovers its records from the relevant year have been removed. K also recognizes the orphanage from his memories, and finds the wooden horse where he remembers hiding it. K seeks out Dr. Ana Stelline, the leading designer of replicant memories, who confirms that his memory of the orphanage is real. This leads K to believe that he is Rachael's son. At LAPD headquarters, K fails a test for his replicant obedience, but claims that he failed the test because he was emotional from completing his mission to kill the child. Joshi gives him 48 hours before he is retired, pending the results of his next test. Preparing to flee, K transfers Joi to a mobile emitter on her request. K has the wooden horse analyzed, which reveals traces of radiation that lead him to the ruins of Las Vegas. There he finds Deckard, who reveals that he is the father of Rachael's child, and that he scrambled the birth records to protect the child's identity before leaving it in the custody of the replicant freedom movement. After killing Joshi, Luv and her men track K to Deckard's location. They kidnap Deckard, permanently destroy Joi and leave a severely wounded K for dead. The replicant freedom movement, who also tracked K, rescue him. Their leader Freysa informs him that Rachael's child is a girl and thus cannot be K. In order to ensure that Deckard does not lead Wallace to Rachael's daughter or to the replicant freedom movement, Freysa orders K to terminate Deckard. Deckard is brought before Wallace, who offers him a clone of Rachael as a reward for revealing what he knows. When Deckard refuses to cooperate, Wallace orders Luv to kill Rachael's clone and escort Deckard off-world to be tortured for information. K intercepts them, fights and kills Luv, but not before he is mortally injured by her. K stages Deckard's death to protect him from both Wallace and the replicants. He then leads Deckard to Stelline's office, having deduced that she's his daughter. The two part ways with K lamenting that his best memories belong to her. Deckard cautiously enters the office and approaches Stelline, while K succumbs to his wounds in peace.