In November Scott was asked by the The Wall Street Journal if the character of Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) from 1982's "Blade Runner would be in the new film Scott replied "No, not really."
Flash forward Twitchfilm has posted an interesting rumor - "Harrison Ford has entered into early talks to join the new Blade Runner… this is still very early stages and it is quite possible that things won't work out."
The first film was based upon author Philip K. Dick's story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The deal for the pic was made last March when Alcon Entertainment won the franchise rights and stated they could essentially do what they wanted with one exception - they could NOT remake the original--Twitch adds "the obvious implication is that what we are looking at is not a reboot but a direct sequel to the original."
Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove will produce.
UPDATE: Deadline spoke with the pic's co-producer Kosove who denied the Ford rumors:"It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner," said Kosove. "To be clear, what we are trying to do with Ridley now is go through the painstaking process of trying to break the back of the story, figure out the direction we're going to take the movie and find a writer to work on it. The casting of the movie could not be further from our minds at this moment."
Asked point blank if Ford could re-appear, Kosove says “In advance of knowing what we’re going to do, I supposed you could say yes, he could. But I think it is quite unlikely.” He goes on to say “What Ridley does in Prometheus is a good template for what we’re trying to do. He created something that has some association to the original Alien, but lives on its own as a standalone movie.”
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