Blade Runner 2049 is not a story about the future. Or at least, it's not about our future.
It's set in the year 2049, but it's the year 2049 as extrapolated from the year 2019 as it was imagined in 1982's Blade Runner. Which was never intended as a literal prediction, anyway.
The original Blade Runner "was very much a nightmare of what might have been or what might come," said 2049 screenwriter Michael Green. "But I don't think anyone involved really thought that its landscapes and the flying cars were in our 30-year future. It was representative of the dreams or nightmares you might have at the time." Read more...
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