The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner
The Edge of Reality: Replicating Blade Runner
This chapter describes Blade Runner 2049 as a ‘reboot-sequel’ for the way it retraces its precursor(s) at the same time as it extends them. In making this point, it argues that Blade Runner 2049 – a film that might be seen as a ‘true sequel’ to Blade Runner (Scott, 1982) – can be understood as a film that reboots a entire franchise. That is, Blade Runner – its multiple versions (1982, 1992, 2007) and many transmedia paratexts – is characterized as a serialised property, one that operates according to the protocols of both organic and, following the work of Jason Mittell, operational seriality.
Keywords: Film reboots, Blade Runner, film sequels, transmedia storytelling, seriality
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