She kidnaps Deckard, destroys Joi, and leaves K to die. Luv kills Joshi and tracks K to Las Vegas. He finds Deckard, who tells him that he is the father of Rachael's child and scrambled the birth records to protect the child's identity Deckard left the child in the custody of the replicant freedom movement. Analysis of the toy horse leads K to the ruins of Las Vegas. Mariette is part of the replicant freedom movement and leaves a tracker on K. Joi hires replicant prostitute Mariette as a surrogate for Joi to have sex with K. Joshi gives him 48 hours to pass the test, or he will be 'retired'. He fails a baseline test marking him as rogue. At LAPD headquarters K implies to Joshi that he has killed the replicant child. Ana Stelline confirms that his memory of the orphanage is not artificial, leading K to conclude he is Rachael's son. K recognizes the orphanage from his memories and finds the toy horse where he remembers hiding it. K tracks the child to an orphanage but the records from that year are missing. He discovers in LAPD records two children born on that date with identical DNA aside from the sex chromosome, but only the boy is listed as alive. girlfriend Joi believes this is evidence that K was born, not created. Because replicant memories are artificial, K's holographic A.I. He sends his replicant enforcer Luv to follow K.Īt Morton's farm, K finds 6.10.21 carved into the tree trunk and recognizes it from a childhood memory of a wooden toy horse. CEO Niander Wallace wants the secret to replicant reproduction to expand interstellar colonization. K learns of Rachael's romantic ties with former blade runner Rick Deckard. K visits the Wallace Corporation, successor to the defunct Tyrell Corporation in the manufacture of replicants, where DNA archives identify the deceased female as Rachael, an experimental replicant. Joshi, fears this knowledge could lead to war between humans and replicants and orders K to retire the replicant child. After retiring replicant Sapper Morton, K finds a box buried under a tree at Morton's farm, containing the remains of a female replicant who died during a caesarean section, demonstrating that replicants can reproduce biologically, previously thought impossible. K (short for serial number, KD6-3.7), a Nexus-9 replicant, works for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) as a "blade runner", an officer who hunts and "retires" (kills) rogue replicants. In 2049, 30 years after the events of Blade Runner, bioengineered humans known as replicants are slaves. A sequel television series, Blade Runner 2099, is in development at Amazon Studios, with Scott set to return as executive producer. Blade Runner 2049 received many accolades, including Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects out of five nominations, and eight British Academy Film Awards nominations, winning for Best Cinematography and Best Special Visual Effects. It grossed $267.5 million worldwide against a production budget of $150–185 million for a reported loss of $80 million. The film received acclaim from critics, who praised multiple aspects including cast performances, directing, cinematography, and faithfulness to the previous film. Principal photography took place mostly at two soundstages in Budapest over four months from July to November 2016.īlade Runner 2049 premiered at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on October 3, 2017, and was released in the United States on October 6. Warner Bros., who had distributed its predecessor, released the film on behalf of Alcon in North America, while Sony handled distribution in international markets.
Blade Runner 2049 was financed through a partnership between Alcon Entertainment and Sony Pictures, as well as a Hungarian government-funded tax rebate. Ridley Scott stepped down as the film's initial director and worked as an executive producer, while Villeneuve was later appointed to direct. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson obtained the film rights from Bud Yorkin. Ideas for a Blade Runner sequel were first proposed in the 1990s, but licensing issues stalled their development. Gosling plays K, a "blade runner" who uncovers a secret that threatens to destabilize society and the course of civilization.
Ford and Edward James Olmos reprise their roles from the previous film as Rick Deckard and Gaff, respectively.
A sequel to Blade Runner (1982), the film stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford, with Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis, Dave Bautista, and Jared Leto in supporting roles. Blade Runner 2049 is a 2017 American epic neo-noir science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, based on a story by Fancher.