Blade Runner 2049 Director Talks Pressures & Tone

Director Denis Villeneuve is taking over one of the most iconic franchises ever and updating it.  Blade Runner is not a movie you want to make a sequel to and screw up.

In a new interview with The Canadian Press, Villeneuve says he’s well aware that it’s not a property you can screw up

“The level of expectation behind this movie is huge and everybody is waiting for the movie with open arms – or with a baseball bat. The expectations are for obvious reasons: The first movie was a masterpiece and it’s a very risky, challenging project. But I will say that it has been the most rewarding and exciting experience of my life so far and I’m excited.”

Villeneuve also spoke about the tonal quality of the movie;

“The first movie was a film noir, quite intense with melancholia and an existential crisis, so we are not far away from the thematics of the first movie, I will say. It’s the same genre, the same atmosphere.”

Blade Runner 2049 hits theatres on October 6th.