Blade Runner 2049 trailer: Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford come face-to-face in first look at new film

The A-listers star in the follow-up to the 1982 cult classic
Jennifer Ruby20 December 2016
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Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford come face-to-face in the first look at the eagerly-awaited new Blade Runner film.

The teaser trailer for Blade Runner 2049, made 34 years after the original cult sci-fi hit, shows Ford’s original ‘blade runner’ Rick Deckard meet his replacement.

Released on Monday afternoon, the surprise trailer gives little away as to plot details but does showcase Denis Villeneuve moody, yellow cityscape, seemingly paying homage to Ridley Scott’s dystopian original.

Apparently confirming that Gosling is the lead, rather than Ford, the actor features heavily as the brand new ‘blade runner’.

But a rough-around-the-edges Deckard emerges from an abandoned house in one scene, telling Gosling’s character that he used to do the same job.

According to the official synopsis, the new film is set thirty years after the events of the original, and follows LAPD officer K (Gosling) as he unearths a ‘long-buried secret’.

Cult classic: Harrison Ford in the orginal 1982 Blade Runner
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In order to work out what it means, he must track down original ‘blade runner’ Deckard, who has been missing for three decades.

Jared Leto, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Carla Juri, Barkhad Abdi, and Dave Bautista also star in the highly-anticipated new film.

The film has been written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, while Scott has handed over directing duties to Sciario director Villeneuve.

Blade Runner received several nominations on its release, including a BAFTA and a Los Angeles Film Critics Association award.

Blade Runner 2049 is slated for release on October 6, 2017.

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