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Blade Runner 2049: Return of the Pleasure Model Replicant?

By M. Christian
December 25, 2016
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Three decades later, Harrison Ford reprises his role from the classic Sci-Fi film.

Harrison Fords returns as Deckard in the upcoming Blade Runner sequel.

The Blade Runner sequel is coming in 2017! Directed this time by Denis Villeneuve, with Ridley Scott as Executive Producer, Blade Runner 2049 stars Ryan Gosling with Harrison Ford returning as Rick Deckard.

While details are scant, here is the official plot description from Alcon Entertainment:

Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years.

In addition to Gosling and Ford, the film features an impressive array of stars, such as Ana Celia de Armas Caso, Dave Bautista, Sylvia Hoeks, and Jared Leto.

The excitement many fans have had about this sequel is the recently released teaser trailer, showing an even further wet and decayed world, and a dry and orange one was well, and what looks to be an even more burnt out Deckard.

We’ll have to see if Blade Runner 2049 will capture the same lightning-in-a-bottle as the first did, especially where it came to exploring purpose, existence, the role of synthetic beings in society—and even, to a small degree, android sexuality.

But in the meantime, check out the teaser trailer and let us know what you think—and if you’re as excited about Blade Runner 2049 as we are.

“Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.”-Deckard

For many, the first Blade Runner is a film that redefined cinematic science fiction. Instead of a gleaming tomorrow packed with noble and stalwart heroes, Ridley Scott’s 1982 film was the 21st century as seen out of a dingy, 20th-century apartment window: a decaying and corrupt future Los Angeles permanently shrouded in rain, smoke, and fog.

Based on the novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? by the acclaimed Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner foretold of a future with human-like replicants: androids so realistic that they could only be detected by a sophisticated piece of apparatus—“Voight-Kampff” for short.

“Have you ever retired a human by mistake?”-Rachael

Set in this wet and dark Los Angeles of 2019, in the first film replicants were only supposed to be used off-world. But if they should happen to make it to Earth, they’d fall under the jurisdiction of a special branch of the LAPD, the titular blade runners, who would shoot them on sight—or, better yet, single them out with Voight-Kampff detection.

As the opening text to the film explained, “This was not called execution. It was called retirement.”

Rick Deckard is the LAPD’s best blade runner, though he’s as burnt out as the city around him. Nevertheless, he’s pushed back into the game when a group replicants manage to smuggle themselves into Los Angeles.

“It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.”-Roy Batty

In the course of the film we’re introduced to the renegade replicants: Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), Leon Kowalski (Brion James), Pris Stratton (Daryl Hannah), and Zhora Salome (Joanna Cassidy)—and Rachel (M. Sean Young), the “good” replicant and eventual love interest for Deckard.

Beyond its future noir aesthetic, the film played quite effectively with purpose and existence. Many times the replicants, who had been created with a five-year limited lifespan by their creator Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), seem much more alive than the humans around them, especially Deckard.

It was also a future where replicants were designed and built solely for human pleasure. While we don’t get to see much of this on Earth, where replicants are banned, Pris (Daryl Hannah) is described as a “basic pleasure model.” Though the combat replicant Zhora (Joanna Cassidy) also tries to hide in plain sight as an exotic dancer.

Can we expect more pleasure models and sexy replicants with the upcoming reboot? We can't say for sure, though we sure hope so!

Image sources: Warno Bros. Pictures

M. Christian

M.Christian (they/them) loves nothing better than exploring the intersections of sex and technology—and speculating on the future of both. A highly regarded erotica writer they have six novels,12 collections, 100+ short stories, and 25 anthologies as an editor to their name. Their non-fiction regularly appears in many sites, but they're most proud of being a regular contributor to Future of Sex.

Of their erotic fiction, Tristan Taormino said that “M.Christian is a literary stylist of the highest caliber: smart, funny, frightening, sexy—there's nothing [they] can't write about… and brilliantly.”

Reflecting their unique ability to sympathetically and convincingly write for a range of genders and sexual orientations, their stories have appeared in multiple editions of Best American Erotica, Best Gay Erotica, Best Lesbian Erotica, The Mammoth Books of Erotica, and others. Their collection of gay erotic fiction, Dirty Words, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.

While a majority of their stories have been collected into books like Dirty Words, their fondness for combining sex and science fiction is clearly evident in collections that include Rude Mechanicals, Technorotica, Better Than The Real Thing, Skin Effect Effect, Bachelor Machine, and Hard Drive: The Best Sci-Fi Erotica of M.Christian.

As a novelist, M.Christian’s versatility is on full display with Running Dry, The Very Bloody Marys, Brushes, Painted Doll; and the somewhat controversial queer BDSM/horror/thrillers Finger's Breadth, and Me2.

M.Christian has worked on the industry’s production side as an Associate Publisher for Renaissance E Books and as a Publisher for Digital Parchment Services. The latter dedicated to celebrating the works of science-fiction legends such as William Rotsler, Jerome Bixby, Jody Scott, Arthur Byron Cover, Ernest Hogan, and James Van Hise.

Covering topics like BDSM safety, sexual education, senior sexuality concerns, queer and gender issues, plus reviewing a variety of sex tech products, M.Christian’s non-fiction has appeared on sites like Kinkly, Tickle.Life, Sexpert, Queer Majority, Sex for Every Body, and—of course—their ongoing work for Future of Sex.

If there’s anything M.Christian enjoys more than writing, it’s teaching. A featured presenter, sometimes with their friend Ralph Greco Jr, at national sex and BDSM events, they have lectured on kink play (with an emphasis on safety), polyamory, boosting sexual creativity, and erotica writing--for beginners or those wanting to go pro.

M.Christian is a cohost on two popular sex-education podcasts: Love’s Outer Limits with Dr. Amy Marsh and Licking Non-Vanilla with Ralph Greco, Jr.

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