Blade Runner 2049

Warner Brothers gave everyone an early Christmas present by releasing a teaser trailer for next year's highly anticipated Blade Runner 2049.  While the movie won't be released until October of next year, it's never too early to start advertising for it.


The trailer starts off with a street sweeper moving towards the camera, followed by K, played by Ryan Gosling.  It moves to showing him crossing a desert, while one of the most famous lines from the original film plays over the scene.  It's Harrison Ford's Deckard saying, "Replicants are like any other machine, they're either a benefit or a hazard.  If they're a benefit, that's not my problem."  While K makes his way through the desert, we're given the impression that it was once an inhabited land, now littered with debris and signs that life used to take place there.  K passes by a giant head from a sculpture, mouth open and the concrete around it crumbled, showing the steel mesh that was used to mold it.  He finally reaches a building, and upon entering it, it looks immaculate.  It has a feeling like an old train station.  With the world around it a mess, the inside of the building is the exact opposite.  K makes his way to a piano and after touching one of the keys, Deckard walks out holding a gun pointed at K and says, "I did your job once.  I was good at it," to which K replies, "Things were simpler then."  It finishes up showing K walking around L.A.


While the teaser trailer was short, it showed some important things.  Here's something that Alex Leadbeater writes about in his article from Screenrant.com:


"In the hideaway, K finds a piano covered in dust from lack of use. This is an essential callback to one of the most hotly debated moments in Blade Runner, and with it the film’s defining mystery.


For the Director’s Cut, Ridley Scott reinserted a dream sequence Deckard has when sat at his piano, of a unicorn running through a forest. Mysterious and befitting of the film’s lucid flow, it subtly reframed the ending; when Deckard finds a origami unicorn from retired blade runner and all-round cynic Gaff, it suggests that – in having his dreams seen by others – he is actually a replicant.


Moreso than anything we’ll see, this reference being so prominent in such a short trailer is a pretty blatant clue that, while the producers have said the film may not provide an answer, Deckard’s true nature will still be a prevalent question in the film."


That's pretty deep stuff, and impressive to pull out of a teaser trailer that only lasted a little over a minute and a half.  This guy has to be a true fan of the original!  But what about all of you?  What are your thoughts on the teaser trailer?  Does it get you excited for the film to come out?  Have you seen the original?  If you have, do you think that there really needs to be a sequel?  Let me know your thoughts in the comments section down below.


Blade Runner 2049 comes out October 6, 2017.