New Blade Runner 2049 Short Fills in Replicant Back Story 

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Need to know what happened between the events of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049? Well, here’s a short film to help fill in those details before Blade Runner 2049 hits cinemas.  

Following up on the timeline released by the makers of Blade Runner 2049 during this year’s San Diego Comic Con, Warner Bros. have released 2036: Nexus Dawn, the first of three short films looking to fill in the gaps in the backstory ever since Deckard (Harrison Ford) did his disappearing act some 30 years ago. 

Now, if you want to go into the film cold, then spoiler alert for what comes below. 

The short (directed by Ridley Scott’s son Luke Scott) finds Jared Leto's Niander Wallace going before a board of enquiry concerned that he's breached a longstanding ban on Replicant development by secretly developing the next step in Replicant evolution. 

With the synthetic beings outlawed since a blackout that shut down cities and caused financial crashes and food shortages, the magistrates (led by Benedict Wong) are shocked to see that Wallace has moved forward with a new line of the creations. He's convinced that he has cracked the way to keep them obedient, and he demonstrates this with brutal efficiency.

It’s a cool little short and we’re looking forward to seeing how it might develop as the release date for Blade Runner 2049 creeps forward. 

With Denis Villeneuve in the director's chair and Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Mackenzie Davis and Dave Bautista among those joining Ford in the new movie, Blade Runner 2049 will be out in the UK on 6 October.

Blade Runner 2049
Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-b...
Release Dates
6 Oct 2017-Cinema
16 Jan 2018-VOD
16 Jan 2018-Blu-ray
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