Denis Villeneuve has confirmed that Blade Runner 2 (now Blade Runner 2049) will not be compromising and will be shooting for an R-rating.
Blade Runner 2049 dropped its first trailer yesterday, but won’t open in cinemas until 6 October, 2017.
Big blockbusters usually have to be made for an audience of all ages to justify their huge budgets, but Deadpool showed that they can be bloody and expletive-laden and still bring in a huge box office gross.
The Arrival director told Screen that principal photography wrapped in November and the Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling-starring film is now being edited in L.A. “My producers are finding it fun to remind me that it will be one of the most expensive R-rated independent feature films ever made,” he said.