‘BLADE RUNNER’ SEQUEL To Feature Female Protagonist. Plus!, ‘PROMETHEUS’ Poster.

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In a  fairly lengthy interview with The Daily Beast, in which they erroneously introduce the filmmaker as “the closest thing to this generation’s  Kubrick” (we’re pretty sure Kubrick wouldn’t have done “A Good Year” or “Matchstick Men”), Scott says that he doesn’t begrudge the studio for shitty sequels and spin-offs of his original “Alien” (things like the disastrous “Alien vs. Predator” movies). “Listen, you do whatever you gotta do to keep something going, and I don’t do that. I tend to make the film and move on,” Scott said, before defaulting to his “is it even a prequel?” talk that has pretty much been ruled out by common sense and, you know, watching the trailers. “Ironically, here we are over 30 years later and I think you might not even argue it’s a prequel.”

And speaking of prequels and sequels and robots (wait, were we talking about robots?), Scott next plans to relaunch the “Blade Runner” franchise with a new take on the material. While it hasn’t been decided if it’s going to be a sequel or a prequel (and his rather, er, contentious relationship with the original film’s leading manHarrison Ford  seems to suggest that he won’t be involved at all, despite initial reports), Scott has at least decided on one thing — the gender of the protagonist. “Funny enough, I started my first meetings on the  ‘Blade Runner’  sequel last week,” Scott said. (Notice the use of the word ‘sequel!’ Everything must be cataloged!) He continued: “We have a very good take on it. And we’ll definitely be featuring a female protagonist.”