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While it didn’t do much at the box office, Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” snared it’s fare share of fans, particularity from the critic community. While it’s unlikely Sony would want to greenlight a sequel, the filmmaker – whose next flick, “Dune” opens in December – said he would like to do something else in the “Blade Runner” universe.
“It’s such an inspiring place, the ‘Blade Runner’ world. The problem I have is the word ‘sequel.’ I think cinema needs original stories. But if you ask me if I’d like to revisit this universe in a different way, I can say yes. It would need to be a project on its own. Something disconnected from both other movies. A detective noir story set in the future… I wake up sometimes in the night dreaming about it.”
Whatever Villeneuve settles on, it’ll be a couple of years away – the acclaimed filmmaker is going to be choca-bloc shooting those big-sprawling “Dune” films for the better part of the next couple of years.
