(L-R) Denis Villenueve, Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling/Warner Bros. – 2016 (NEW YORK) — “I had your job once,” Harrison Ford says after pulling a gun on Ryan Gosling at the climax of a new trailer for Blade Runner 2049, the sequel to Blade Runner.
Blade Runner 2049 is the continuation of the dystopian futuristic universe director Ridley Scott created in his visionary 1982 science fiction classic. In the original movie, Ford’s character — part of a police unit known as Blade Runners — is tasked with hunting down a team of synthetic humans, or replicants, on the loose in 2019 Los Angeles.
“I was good at it,” Ford tells Gosling about their shared line of work. “Things were simpler then,” Gosling responds flatly.
This time around, Gosling’s character has the job, and according to Warner Bros., his character “unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos.” The discovery apparently leads Gosling’s Officer K to seek out Ford’s Rick Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years.
Ridley Scott produced the film, but handed over the directorial reigns to Denis Villeneuve, who recently directed the acclaimed sci-fi film Arrival.
Blade Runner 2049, which also stars Jared Leto and Robin Wright, opens October 6, 2017.
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