On Saturday, the internet worked itself into a mini-frenzy when news came out that Harrison Ford had entered early talks to appear in Ridley Scott’s new Blade Runner movie. And while it’s too early to tell if that’ll end up happening or not, the producers of the film want to put the rumors to rest.

Andrew Kosove is one of the bigwigs at Alcon Entertainment, the company that’s producing and financing Scott’s upcoming return to the Blade Runner universe. Kosove spoke with Mike Fleming at Deadline to squash the recent rumors and give an update on where they are with the movie so far:

“It is absolutely patently false that there has been any discussion about Harrison Ford being in Blade Runner,” Kosove told me. “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.”

Kosove, one of the heads of Alcon, also seemed to shoot down the idea of a direct sequel, comparing the new Blade Runner project with Prometheus.

“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.”

So now we’re right back where we started – with almost no information about the project at all. All we know is that Ford could return, but it’s too early to speculate. Does this news give your inner sci-fi geek a sigh of relief, or do you wish Ford was totally committed to the project?

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With Ridley Scott revisiting the world of Alien with Prometheus later this summer, it wasn’t that much of a shock to hear the director was planning a similar return to the equally iconic world of Blade Runner. Now, Twitch is hearing word that Harrison Ford “is in early talks” to join Sir Ridley in the sci-fi universe once again.

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it’s great to get the original creative team working together again and it would be amazing to see what kind of story they could tell with today’s technology. But on the other hand, Ford’s involvement will likely answer the “is Deckard a Replicant?” question once and for all, and I’m not so sure that’s a good thing. Yes, your curiosity may be slaked, but a big part of the reason the original Blade Runner has stood the test of time through pop culture has been the argument about the ending of the movie. I can’t see any way for Scott and Co. to dance around the answer to that question for the entirety of another movie, so that means the filmmakers are forcing their perspectives on us and robbing us one of the best things films provide: the passionate discussion that comes from ambiguity.

What do you think?

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What’s next for Ridley Scott after this summer’s highly-anticipated Prometheus? Deadline says the director has been speaking directly with Cormac McCarthy about stepping behind the camera on the revered author’s first spec script, a Southwestern drug story called The Counselor. Read more after the jump.

McCarthy’s novels have been turned into films before: The Road, All the Pretty Horses, and the Best Picture-winning No Country For Old Men. But they’ve always been adapted to the big screen by somebody else; The Counselor is the first feature script McCarthy has ever sold, and directing the Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s screenplay is a coveted job in Hollywood.

The story follows an admired lawyer who is tempted by the drug business and ends up getting in over his head. Steve Schwartz, one of the movie’s producers, gave us a little more detail about what to expect:

Since McCarthy himself wrote the script, we get his own muscular prose directly, with its sexual obsessions. It’s a masculine world into which, unusually, two women intrude to play leading roles. McCarthy’s wit and humor in the dialogue make the nightmare even scarier. This may be one of McCarthy’s most disturbing and powerful works.

Despite the underlying feeling of sameness that has permeated his recent output, Ridley Scott is still one of the most versatile directors in Hollywood. After all, this is the same guy who brought us Thelma & Louise, Alien, Gladiator, and Matchstick Men. Though it sounds like a project more suited for the Coen Brothers, I’m still interested to see Scott’s take – and I’m even more interested to see if McCarthy is as good at writing screenplays as novels.

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After teasing us over the past few days 20th Century Fox has released the first official trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus which stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, Patrick Wilson, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce and Rafe Spall.

You can watch the trailer below. It definitely has an Alien-vibe to it, and meets the hype that’s been building. Hopefully the actual movie does too.

Visionary filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define, creating an original science fiction epic set in the most dangerous corners of the universe. The film takes a team of scientists and explorers on a thrilling journey that will test their physical and mental limits and strand them on a distant world, where they will discover the answers to our most profound questions and to life’s ultimate mystery.

20th Century Fox will release Prometheus on June 8th 2012.

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Yesterday 20th Century Fox released a short trailer preview for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus in preparation for the first official trailer which will debut on Thursday. Now the studio has released a “two days to go teaser” which contains more snippets of footage and more talk from Ridley Scott.

Watch below:

We can probably expect another one to appear online tomorrow. So far Prometheus is looking like one of the must-see sci-fi movies of next year.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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The first official trailer for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus will arrive in 3 days, and in preparation 20th Century Fox has released a short preview which contains footage from the forthcoming trailer, along with a behind the scenes interview with Scott himself where he explains what we can expect.

Watch below:

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Logan Marshall-Green, and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly contains our first good look at Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, which stars Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Patrick Wilson, Guy Pearce and Logan Marshall-Green.

In the image below we see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo‘s Noomi Rapace as Dr. Elizabeth Shaw, a researcher and archaeologist. In an interview last month Rapace said Shaw was the “most complete person” she’s ever played, and she “turns into a fighter” halfway through the film after “a lot of things happen”.

Also in the image is Logan Marshall-Green (Devil) who plays a crewman onboard the space ship and the love interest of Elizabeth Shaw. A blonde Michael Fassbender plays an android named David.

Other images show us the characters of Charlize Theron and Idris Elba.

Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

With 20th Century Fox’s marketing campaign seemingly under-way we can probably expect the teaser trailer to hit sometime soon. Ridley Scott’s return to sci-fi hits June 8, 2012.

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Oh Prometheus; we know next to nothing about you yet we can’t help but hop on the anticipation train, searching for any, so far very minimal, information about you to keep us held over. It’s no surprise really, considering it’s a return to the sci-fi realm for coveted Alien and Blade Runner director Ridley Scott. That Scott is a sneaky one, with previous plot overviews only stating that it’s “a sci-fi epic,” but now we’ve finally got a new synopsis courtesy of the film’s official Facebook Page, which will surely give some closure for those us craving it. Right?

Well here it is:

Ridley Scott, director of “Alien” and “Blade Runner,” returns to the genre he helped define. With PROMETHEUS, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

Satisfied? Yea, OK, it really didn’t give us much to go with, but at least it somewhat gives us a little structure on how it could potentially play out, and of course getting us even more excited. Another interesting fact is that the alien creatures are connected in someway with the creation of mankind, providing an eerie backdrop for the film’s mythology. However, that rumor regarding the involvement of the skeletal creature known only of the Space Jockey briefly seen in 1979′s Alien, is still, well, just a rumor but, hey, beggars can’t be choosers. I guess.

Prometheus, produced by 20th Century Fox, stars Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Guy Pearce, Ben Foster, and Logan Marshall-Green and is set for release on June 8, 2012.

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Earlier this year Alcon Entertainment, the production company based at Warner Bros. who are behind movies such as The Blind Side and The Book of Eli, secured film and television franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to Ridley Scott’s iconic 1982 sci-fi thriller Blade Runner.

Now Deadline is reporting that Scott, who is currently revisiting the Alien franchise with Prometheus, will also revisit the Blade Runner world as director and producer on a new film.

No word yet on whether the film will be a sequel or prequel, or whether Harrison Ford will be involved, but getting Scott on-board was a good move. If they’re going to make sequels/prequels, it might as well be with the director of the original.

Blade Runner starred Ford, Rutger Hauer, and Sean Young, and was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. It is considered the greatest science-fiction film of all time by many, and currently sits at #117 on IMDB’s Top 250.

The film depicted a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019 in which genetically engineered organic robots called replicants—visually indistinguishable from adult humans—are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation. Their use on Earth is banned, and replicants are exclusively used for dangerous, menial or leisure work on Earth’s off-world colonies. Replicants who defy the ban and return to Earth are hunted down and “retired” by police special operatives known as “Blade Runners”.

The plot focuses on a brutal and cunning group of recently escaped replicants hiding in Los Angeles and the burnt out expert blade runner, Rick Deckard, who reluctantly agrees to take on one more assignment to hunt them down.

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20th Century Fox decided to feature Ridley Scott’s Prometheus at the San Diego Comic Con, and those in attendance were treated to a featurette containing behind-the-scenes footage as well as footage from the movie.

After this writer Damon Lindelof (Lost) and Charlize Theron presented the panel with Ridley Scott and Noomi Rapace joining via satellite uplink from Iceland. The studio have released the first official image (see above) for those who didn’t attend, but thankfully reports of what was shown during the panel have surfaced.

AvP Galaxy compiled a great summary of the panel and the interesting bits:

- Many of the sets, spaceships, space suits and the look in general appeared very reminiscent of Alien. Repeated comments are that the sets are “epic and expansive“.
- In the footage the “Prometheus” title card slowly faded onto screen much in the same manner as the original “Alien” title.
- Michael Fassbender’s character, David, is shown looking curiously at a drop of blood on his finger.
- Charlize Theron’s character, Vickers, was also seen doing naked push-ups and wielding a flame-thrower. Vickers is revealed to “be a suit“. Theron also comments that: “She[Vickers] runs a tight ship… but she’s somehow ‘going to be a problem“.
- Ridley Scott comments on the long wait for his return to science-fiction: “I was busy doing other movies and exploring other genres and, frankly, I never thought about sci-fi until I realized there was something in the first Alien that no one ever asked a question about. In the next one, still no exploration of that big question, so maybe that can be the centerpiece of what we just complete. But we’ve decided to go a complete other direction… In the last few minutes of the movie… you’ll actually understand what I’m talking about . “

You can read the rest of the round-up here. It’s still early days yet but it looks like Ridley Scott’s return to sci-fi will be worth the wait.

Prometheus stars Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron and Idris Elba, and 20th Century Fox will release the film on June 8th 2012.

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