The legendary cinematographer Roger Deakins will be lending his DP skills to Blade Runner 2.
NewsRidley Scott may be stepping away from the director's chair for the long-gestating Blade Runner 2, but another filmmaking legend will be getting behind the camera, at least as cinematographer. Roger Deakins, the DP who has been nominated for a total of 12 Oscars--yet inexplicably has yet to be awarded one by the Academy--has been tapped to reteam with his Prisoners collaborator Denis Villeneuve, the latter of whom has taken on directorial duties for Blade Runner 2.
While Deakins was not part of the 1982 original cult classic that featured Scott loosely adapting Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? into a hypnotically noirish mood piece, the cinematographer has a long career that includes many genre films. Most recently, he was the director of photography on Skyfall, but his career also includes such unforgettable work as No Country for Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James, The Big Lebowski, The Shawshank Redemption, Kundun, and much more.
Blade Runner 2 will pick up 30 years after the original film with Harrison Ford reprising the role of former Replicant-hunter Rick Deckard. However, what Deckard will have gotten up to in the intervening decades (or if he is in fact actually a human character) has yet to be revealed for the upcoming film.
