Which Cut Is Blade Runner 2049 A Sequel To

So when Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Vileneuve met with reporters at San Diego Comic-Con, someone inevitably had to ask which version of Blade Runner is Blade Runner 2049 a sequel to. “The thing is that I was raised with the first one,” Vileneuve said, referring to the original theatrical cut. “There was one Blade Runner at the time. I remember seeing the first movie and falling deeply in love with it.”  In order to tell his story without alienating fans who prefer one version of the story, the director went back to the source material, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? for inspiration. “I felt that the key to deal with that was in the original novel,” Vileneuve said. “In the novel the characters are doubting themselves and they aren’t sure if they are replicants or not. From time to time the detectives are running scans on themselves to make sure that they are human. I love that idea so I decided that in the movie Deckard is unsure, as we are, of what his identity is. I love mystery.”

Blade Runner 2049 will reveal at least some of its mysteries when it opens on October 6, 2017. Read and download the full Den of Geek Special Edition magazine here!