{"id":155743,"date":"2016-02-19T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T07:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=155743"},"modified":"2016-02-19T10:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T08:01:44","slug":"blade-runner-2-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/155743-blade-runner-2-release-date-announced.html","title":{"rendered":"Blade Runner 2 release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alcon Entertainment will release Blade Runner 2 on 12 January 2018, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2016\/02\/blade-runner-2-mlk-weekend-2018-release-date-1201705051\/\">Deadline Hollywood has reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Principle photography on the sequel to the 80s science fiction classic has yet to begin, though the lead role has been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Gosling will play the lead, and Harrison Ford is set to reprise his role as Rick Deckard.<\/p>\n<p>The original film was based on the 1968 Philip K. Dick novel, \u201cDo Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?\u201d and was directed by Ridley Scott.<\/p>\n<p>Scott will not direct the sequel, as he is working on Prometheus 2.<\/p>\n<p>However, the script he worked on with Hampton Fancher and Michael Green has been handed to Denis Villenueve, who Scott expressed confidence in.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More science fiction articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/105673-top-5-machines-robots-that-enslaved-or-destroyed-humanity.html\"><strong>Top 5 machines, robots that enslaved or destroyed humanity<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/152537-152537.html\"><strong>Star Wars: science fact vs fiction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/149987-star-wars-the-force-awakens-review.html\"><strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens review<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/144529-new-star-trek-tv-series-on-its-way.html\"><strong>New Star Trek TV series on its way<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/47840-scientist-invents-a-real-star-trek-tricorder.html\"><strong>Scientist invents a real \u201cStar Trek\u201d tricorder<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sequel to the 80s classic has received a release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":155747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,17],"tags":[36,35619,35607,35609,35625,35611,35621,21863,35623,35615,35613,35617],"class_list":["post-155743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadcasting","category-technology","tag-active","tag-alcon-entertainment","tag-blade-runner","tag-blade-runner-2","tag-denis-villenueve","tag-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep","tag-hampton-fancher","tag-harrison-ford","tag-michael-green","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-ridley-scott","tag-ryan-gosling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155749,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155743\/revisions\/155749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}