Written by K Perkins, Mellow Brown | Art by Fernando Dagnino | Published by Titan Comics
So, here we are. The final issue in the book that promised to show us the origins of the Blade Runner unit. It’s been quite the ride getting here. At first, I wasn’t entirely sure how the story, set in 2009, of LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux investigating a suicide would tie neatly into the events leading up to the original film a decade later. I shouldn’t have worried. Events led, as they always do with Tyrell Corporation, into murders, illegal operations, unwise Replicant tech, and a whole lot of death and destruction. Stuff we love of course. A good story needs a good villain after all. Last issue saw the sacrifice that would lead events down the road we now know happened, and Cal is looking like both the hero and victim.
Nia’s sacrifice,...
So, here we are. The final issue in the book that promised to show us the origins of the Blade Runner unit. It’s been quite the ride getting here. At first, I wasn’t entirely sure how the story, set in 2009, of LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux investigating a suicide would tie neatly into the events leading up to the original film a decade later. I shouldn’t have worried. Events led, as they always do with Tyrell Corporation, into murders, illegal operations, unwise Replicant tech, and a whole lot of death and destruction. Stuff we love of course. A good story needs a good villain after all. Last issue saw the sacrifice that would lead events down the road we now know happened, and Cal is looking like both the hero and victim.
Nia’s sacrifice,...
- 6/1/2022
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
This article contains spoilers for Blade Runner: Black Lotus episodes 1 and 2.
The rainy and foggy world of Blade Runner is about to get a little clearer. With the new anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus, several pieces of narrative connective tissue link the anachronistic world of “2019” with the future we saw in the film Blade Runner: 2049. While Black Lotus on Adult Swim is very much intent on telling its own story, and focusing on specific Replicants and Blade Runners unique to this series, it’s also doing some impressive heavy lifting in the world-building department.
Here are the various ways that the first two episodes of Black Lotus connect the continuity of 1982’s Blade Runner with 2017’s Blade Runner: 2049.
What Happened After the Black Out?
Blade Runner: Black Lotus is set in 2032, putting it ten years after the blackout in 2022. This blackout was referenced heavily in Blade Runner: 2049 and was...
The rainy and foggy world of Blade Runner is about to get a little clearer. With the new anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus, several pieces of narrative connective tissue link the anachronistic world of “2019” with the future we saw in the film Blade Runner: 2049. While Black Lotus on Adult Swim is very much intent on telling its own story, and focusing on specific Replicants and Blade Runners unique to this series, it’s also doing some impressive heavy lifting in the world-building department.
Here are the various ways that the first two episodes of Black Lotus connect the continuity of 1982’s Blade Runner with 2017’s Blade Runner: 2049.
What Happened After the Black Out?
Blade Runner: Black Lotus is set in 2032, putting it ten years after the blackout in 2022. This blackout was referenced heavily in Blade Runner: 2049 and was...
- 11/14/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Written by Mike Johnson | Art by Andres Guinaldo | Published by Titan Comics
Last issue saw the book jump ahead a decade, allowing for a shakeup in the status quo of both Ash and the world she inhabits. This is deliberate, as this series I’m assuming was always intended to show how the 2019 world of the original Blade Runner movie became the world of the Blade Runner 2049 sequel. Major events have already happened of course, notably the destruction of the Tyrell Corporation in 2022, which had led to the Replicant databases being wiped. Many were stuck in their servant roles, but many other Nexus 8 models were helped to escape by the Replicant Underground.
Now in 2029, Ash has rejoined the Blade Runner unit, but is living a double life. Although happy to hunt down ‘bad’ Replicants, she is also locating Replicants so that her partner, Freysa, can help them disappear. To make matters more complicated,...
Last issue saw the book jump ahead a decade, allowing for a shakeup in the status quo of both Ash and the world she inhabits. This is deliberate, as this series I’m assuming was always intended to show how the 2019 world of the original Blade Runner movie became the world of the Blade Runner 2049 sequel. Major events have already happened of course, notably the destruction of the Tyrell Corporation in 2022, which had led to the Replicant databases being wiped. Many were stuck in their servant roles, but many other Nexus 8 models were helped to escape by the Replicant Underground.
Now in 2029, Ash has rejoined the Blade Runner unit, but is living a double life. Although happy to hunt down ‘bad’ Replicants, she is also locating Replicants so that her partner, Freysa, can help them disappear. To make matters more complicated,...
- 1/12/2021
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Mike Johnson | Art by Andres Guinaldo | Published by Titan Comics
So, this is the wrap up of what has been essentially one over arching storyline, albeit one split between three story arcs. A beginning, middle, and end if you will. The best thing this first year has done has been to both world-build and to tell a damn good story at the same time. Not only that, to do both in a pretty authentic feeling Blade Runner setting too. Ash has been the perfect lead character too. Flawed, stubborn, proud, brave and persistent in equal measure, she’s as close as this dystopian society gets to a hero. At least she tries to do the right thing. Let’s hope she survives the end of her own story.
So, we’ve seen Ash arrested by the LAPD, broken out by the Replicant Resistance, inadvertently helped by a mad...
So, this is the wrap up of what has been essentially one over arching storyline, albeit one split between three story arcs. A beginning, middle, and end if you will. The best thing this first year has done has been to both world-build and to tell a damn good story at the same time. Not only that, to do both in a pretty authentic feeling Blade Runner setting too. Ash has been the perfect lead character too. Flawed, stubborn, proud, brave and persistent in equal measure, she’s as close as this dystopian society gets to a hero. At least she tries to do the right thing. Let’s hope she survives the end of her own story.
So, we’ve seen Ash arrested by the LAPD, broken out by the Replicant Resistance, inadvertently helped by a mad...
- 11/19/2020
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Hong Kong-born action director Ringo Lam, who directed the influential crime film “City on Fire,” has died.
Hong Kong media outlets reported the director, who was born Lin Lingdong, was found unresponsive in bed on Saturday by his wife. He was 63.
The 1986 “City on Fire” is considered a landmark film about Hong Kong triads, and won best director at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It was a major influence on Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs.” Lam followed that film up with “Prison on Fire” and “School on Fire.”
“Tarantino has never tried to hide his love for ’70s cinema, and this is part of what makes his take on ‘City on Fire’ so interesting,” wrote IndieWire in an explanation of Tarantino’s influences.
With several “Reservoir Dogs” shots recalling “City on Fire,” such as the image of four men in black suits and a man shooting a cop with with two guns,...
Hong Kong media outlets reported the director, who was born Lin Lingdong, was found unresponsive in bed on Saturday by his wife. He was 63.
The 1986 “City on Fire” is considered a landmark film about Hong Kong triads, and won best director at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It was a major influence on Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs.” Lam followed that film up with “Prison on Fire” and “School on Fire.”
“Tarantino has never tried to hide his love for ’70s cinema, and this is part of what makes his take on ‘City on Fire’ so interesting,” wrote IndieWire in an explanation of Tarantino’s influences.
With several “Reservoir Dogs” shots recalling “City on Fire,” such as the image of four men in black suits and a man shooting a cop with with two guns,...
- 12/29/2018
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Ringo Lam, the Hong Kong director that worked on such projects as the 1987 film “City on Fire,” was found dead Saturday morning, according to the Hong Kong’s Apple Daily. Lam was 63.
An unresponsive Lam was found in bed by his wife, Apple Daily reported on Saturday. After discovering the body, she called an ambulance, but by the time it arrived, Lam had already passed. A cause of death has not been announced, but no foul play is suspected.
Born in Hong Kong in the mid 1950s, Lam originally aspired to be an actor, but eventually shifted his focus to working behind the camera and moved to Canada to study film.
An unresponsive Lam was found in bed by his wife, Apple Daily reported on Saturday. After discovering the body, she called an ambulance, but by the time it arrived, Lam had already passed. A cause of death has not been announced, but no foul play is suspected.
Born in Hong Kong in the mid 1950s, Lam originally aspired to be an actor, but eventually shifted his focus to working behind the camera and moved to Canada to study film.
- 12/29/2018
- by Matt Lopez
- The Wrap
Jean Claude Van Damme is widely known for his brilliant kicking ability and martial arts background. As a young kid, Van Damme would train in the martial arts Shotokan karate and Kickboxing, during this time he also studied Ballet, which would be used more for his flexibility and strength in his legs.
He has a great kickboxing record on 19 fight, 18 wins, one loss, which he won at a later date in the rematch. But when it comes to his movies, he has a great influence within Asian Cinema, using many directors and choreographers in his movies. In his early movie career he starred in movies such as Bloodsport and Kickboxer, showing the arts of Ninjutsu and Muay Thai. As his career went on, in 1994 he teamed up with veteran director John Woo for the movie Hard Target. Here John Woo would show his violent side in this all out guns...
He has a great kickboxing record on 19 fight, 18 wins, one loss, which he won at a later date in the rematch. But when it comes to his movies, he has a great influence within Asian Cinema, using many directors and choreographers in his movies. In his early movie career he starred in movies such as Bloodsport and Kickboxer, showing the arts of Ninjutsu and Muay Thai. As his career went on, in 1994 he teamed up with veteran director John Woo for the movie Hard Target. Here John Woo would show his violent side in this all out guns...
- 12/17/2013
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
"Let me know when you're ready to fight."
Excited for the release of The Expendables on DVD and Blu-Ray next week? Reelz has you covered with tonight's MovieMovie, In Hell. Jean Claude Van Damme stars as an American working overseas in Russia who takes the law into his own hands when his wife is killed and is sentenced to life in prison. Once inside, Van Damme is forced to participate in the warden's prison fights, while his cellmate may have the key to not only exposing the corrupt prison, but his escape as well.
In Hell is the third collaboration between Van Damme and Hong Kong action director Ringo Lam (City on Fire), who also worked together on 1996's Maximum Risk and 2001's Replicant, and co-stars Lawrence Taylor (Any Given Sunday). In Hell airs at 12Am Est/ 9Pm Pst.
tonight, join van damme in hell
Movies nightly on Reelz, check...
Excited for the release of The Expendables on DVD and Blu-Ray next week? Reelz has you covered with tonight's MovieMovie, In Hell. Jean Claude Van Damme stars as an American working overseas in Russia who takes the law into his own hands when his wife is killed and is sentenced to life in prison. Once inside, Van Damme is forced to participate in the warden's prison fights, while his cellmate may have the key to not only exposing the corrupt prison, but his escape as well.
In Hell is the third collaboration between Van Damme and Hong Kong action director Ringo Lam (City on Fire), who also worked together on 1996's Maximum Risk and 2001's Replicant, and co-stars Lawrence Taylor (Any Given Sunday). In Hell airs at 12Am Est/ 9Pm Pst.
tonight, join van damme in hell
Movies nightly on Reelz, check...
- 11/18/2012
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
While Jean-Claude Van Damme now prefers to make narcissistic reality TV shows I had the chance to revisit one of his earlier works this week as Double Impact returns to DVD on 19th September. Made in 1991, Double Impact marked Van Damme’s first foray into the acting challenge of the dual role, here playing twin brothers separated at birth and distinguished by slightly different hairstyles.
Van Damme plays Chad and Alex Wagner who are separated as infants when their parents are brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. 25 years later, Chad has moved to California via Paris, by way of explanation for his unusual accent, to become a karate teacher and Alex, who stayed in Hong Kong, has become involved in the criminal underworld. The pair are reunited in Hong Kong by the family bodyguard Frank (Geoffrey Lewis – Every Which Way But Loose) with a plan to...
Van Damme plays Chad and Alex Wagner who are separated as infants when their parents are brutally murdered by members of a Hong Kong criminal cartel. 25 years later, Chad has moved to California via Paris, by way of explanation for his unusual accent, to become a karate teacher and Alex, who stayed in Hong Kong, has become involved in the criminal underworld. The pair are reunited in Hong Kong by the family bodyguard Frank (Geoffrey Lewis – Every Which Way But Loose) with a plan to...
- 9/19/2011
- by Chris Wright
- Obsessed with Film
Chicago – Michael Rooker, who grew up in Chicago as a developing actor and had his first breakout role in the locally filmed “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer,” is currently featured in the audacious new film “Super,” starring Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page.
Rooker plays Abe, a henchman to crime boss Jacque (Kevin Bacon), as they try to thwart the meanderings of vigilante costumed heroes named the Crimson Bolt (Rainn Wilson) and Boltie (Ellen Page). Raw, poignant and strangely probable, Super is a unusual take on a comic book situation, as if they decided to take those familiar heroics into a desperate real-life situation.
Ellen Page (Boltie) and Rainn Wilson (The Crimson Bolt) in ‘Super’
Photo credit: IFC Films
Michael Rooker has had an essential career as a character actor. After studying acting at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, he broke out in a big way as the...
Rooker plays Abe, a henchman to crime boss Jacque (Kevin Bacon), as they try to thwart the meanderings of vigilante costumed heroes named the Crimson Bolt (Rainn Wilson) and Boltie (Ellen Page). Raw, poignant and strangely probable, Super is a unusual take on a comic book situation, as if they decided to take those familiar heroics into a desperate real-life situation.
Ellen Page (Boltie) and Rainn Wilson (The Crimson Bolt) in ‘Super’
Photo credit: IFC Films
Michael Rooker has had an essential career as a character actor. After studying acting at the Goodman School of Drama in Chicago, he broke out in a big way as the...
- 4/11/2011
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
The idea of cloning, and its biotechnology of duplicating cells to create the exact same thing, has long been in science-fiction films. It’s the tried and true story device that is used to rattle us modern day audiences, who just aren’t as scared as monsters in the dark anymore, when compared to monsters we can create. I recall the immortal bit of dialogue, once deleted from theatrical prints of Frankenstein (1931) until nearly five decades after its release: “Oh, in the name of God! Now I know what it feels like to be God!”
Of course, a clone doesn’t regulate the idea directly to science, as films have used plenty of “clone” like doppelgangers, much like in this Tuesday Blu-ray and DVD release from Universal Home Entertainment of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, with Scott’s “evil clone”, Nega Scott. This retrospective weighs in on the pros and...
Of course, a clone doesn’t regulate the idea directly to science, as films have used plenty of “clone” like doppelgangers, much like in this Tuesday Blu-ray and DVD release from Universal Home Entertainment of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, with Scott’s “evil clone”, Nega Scott. This retrospective weighs in on the pros and...
- 11/10/2010
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Jcvd (2008) Direction: Mabrouk El Mechri Screenplay: Mabrouk El Mechri and Frédéric Benudis; from an idea by Frédéric Taddeï and Vincent Ravalec Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, François Damiens, Liliane Becker Jean-Claude Van Damme in Jcvd Mabrouk El Mechri’s Jcvd is one of the best films Jean-Claude Van Damme has starred in for some years, equal to his more recent efforts in Wake of Death and Replicant. Van Damme really puts on his acting cap in all three films, though out of the three, Replicant is still the best, followed by Jcvd and then Wake of Death. Jcvd, however, is the most inventive of the trio; it is also the first film where Van Damme gets real with his audience. Jcvd [...]...
- 11/12/2009
- by Reginald Williams
- Alt Film Guide
“Now, now, perfectly symmetrical violence never solves anything!” ~ Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, Futurama
Ten years after fighting himself in Double Impact in 1991, Jean-Claude Van Damme realized that he’d never fought quite a foe like himself since and resolved to fight a rematch in Replicant. However, anyone tuning in for a solid 110 minutes of martial arts action will leave sorely disappointed. Maybe Jean-Claude’s age had caught up to him by 2001 or maybe he wanted to try his hand at actually acting for once – who knows. What is known is that Replicant leans heavily on a traditional cop/serial killer plotline with little room for the head-spinning acrobatics of Van Damme’s younger days.
‘The Torch’ (Van Damme) has taunted Detective Jake (Michael Rooker) for years with his pattern of burning women alive in their homes. The game of cat and mouse seems like it will end though when Jake...
Ten years after fighting himself in Double Impact in 1991, Jean-Claude Van Damme realized that he’d never fought quite a foe like himself since and resolved to fight a rematch in Replicant. However, anyone tuning in for a solid 110 minutes of martial arts action will leave sorely disappointed. Maybe Jean-Claude’s age had caught up to him by 2001 or maybe he wanted to try his hand at actually acting for once – who knows. What is known is that Replicant leans heavily on a traditional cop/serial killer plotline with little room for the head-spinning acrobatics of Van Damme’s younger days.
‘The Torch’ (Van Damme) has taunted Detective Jake (Michael Rooker) for years with his pattern of burning women alive in their homes. The game of cat and mouse seems like it will end though when Jake...
- 8/11/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Here’s a list of some of the new DVD and Blu-ray releases this week we’re particularly interested in. Plus, some old favorites (and not so favorites) coming out this week for the first time on Blu-ray.
Movies
About Last Night… ~ Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi (Blu-ray)
Alien Trespass ~ Eric McCormack, Dan Lauria, Robert Patrick, and Jenni Baird (DVD and Blu-ray)
Blue Thunder ~ Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, and Daniel Stern (Blu-ray)
Chaos ~ Jason Statham (Blu-ray)
The Class (Entre Les Murs) ~ François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, and Angélica Sancio (DVD)
Cutthroat Island ~ Geena Davis, Frank Langella, Matthew Modine (Blu-ray)
Eagles Over London ~ Van Johnson, Frederick Stafford, Francisco Rabal, and Luigi Pistilli (Blu-ray)
Gigantic ~ Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano, John Goodman, and Ed Asner (DVD)
I Love You, Man ~ Paul Rudd, Jason Segal (DVD and Blu-ray)
Katyn ~ Artur Amijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, and Andrzej Chyra (DVD)
Michael Jackson: Moonwalking – The...
Movies
About Last Night… ~ Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, James Belushi (Blu-ray)
Alien Trespass ~ Eric McCormack, Dan Lauria, Robert Patrick, and Jenni Baird (DVD and Blu-ray)
Blue Thunder ~ Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, and Daniel Stern (Blu-ray)
Chaos ~ Jason Statham (Blu-ray)
The Class (Entre Les Murs) ~ François Bégaudeau, Agame Malembo-Emene, and Angélica Sancio (DVD)
Cutthroat Island ~ Geena Davis, Frank Langella, Matthew Modine (Blu-ray)
Eagles Over London ~ Van Johnson, Frederick Stafford, Francisco Rabal, and Luigi Pistilli (Blu-ray)
Gigantic ~ Zooey Deschanel, Paul Dano, John Goodman, and Ed Asner (DVD)
I Love You, Man ~ Paul Rudd, Jason Segal (DVD and Blu-ray)
Katyn ~ Artur Amijewski, Maja Ostaszewska, and Andrzej Chyra (DVD)
Michael Jackson: Moonwalking – The...
- 8/11/2009
- by Joe Gillis
- The Flickcast
DVD Playhouse—August 2009
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...
By
Allen Gardner
Watchmen—Director’S Cut (Warner Bros.) Director Zack Snyder’s film of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is as worthy an adaptation of a great book that has ever been filmed. In an alternative version of the year 1985, Richard Nixon is serving his third term as President and super heroes have been outlawed by a congressional act, in spite of the fact that two of the most high-profile “masks,” Dr. Manhattan (Billy Cruddup) and The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) helped the U.S. win the Vietnam War. When The Comedian is found murdered, many former heroes become concerned that a conspiracy is afoot to assassinate retired costumed crime fighters. Former masks Nite Owl (Patrick Wilson), Silk Spectre (Malin Akerman) and still-operating Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, in an Oscar-worthy turn) launch an investigation of their own, all while the Pentagon’s “Doomsday...
- 8/10/2009
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
A security camera reveals the interior of an empty supermarket. The grainy black and white image is shattered when a grizzly figure wearing a cut off muscle T and a greasy ponytail smashes the lens with the butt of a gun. Four thugs are robbing the supermarket with automatic weapons and they’re taking the cashiers hostage. In all the commotion, the automatic door opens. A pan up reveals leather boots, stonewashed jeans, a tank top, a leather trench coat and then, the mullet. You’ve seen this NFL-sized mullet get drafted by the Seattle Seahawks in 1987. You’ve seen this mullet being dragged into the end zone by Bo Jackson. The bleached blonde mullet belongs to classic NFL bust Brian Bosworth. While the Boz couldn’t get it done on the field, in 1991, he made short work of the supermarket thieves, a gang of bikers, and Lance Hendriksen in his action movie debut,...
- 7/23/2009
- by NickO
- Atomic Popcorn
"Penance," finished production in 2008 and now the film, from writer and director Jake Kennedy, is participating in Fangorias Midnite Madness with a screening this May 30, 2009. Starring a host of celebrities including Tony Todd (Candyman, Masters of Horror), Tracy Coogan (Zombie Honeymoon), James Duval (Cornered), and Michael Rooker (Replicant) the eight dollar ticket price to view this independent film is a steal. And those fortunate enough to be in the Beverly Hills area for the screening might get to meet some of the filmmakers including Irish born actress Mrs. Coogan, director Kennedy and character actor Mr. Rooker. Unfortunately, some of us will be too far away to take part, but for others do not miss this opportunity!
The synopsis for "Penance," here...
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin (Internet).
For a trailer of "Penance,...
The synopsis for "Penance," here...
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin (Internet).
For a trailer of "Penance,...
- 5/15/2009
- by Michael Ross Allen
- 28 Days Later Analysis
I loved Jean-Claude Van Damme but not enough to watch all the straight to video movies he made. Maybe if Replicant and The Order had been full of crazy sh*t I would have been enticed to watch more. But First Look Pictures sent me a special edition of In Hell a while ago, and it sat on my stack long enough that it ended up getting watched.
On DVD: In Hell
There isn't a whole lot of crazy sh*t but Ringo (Maximum Risk) Lam does what he can with limited funds and locations. Most of the cool stuff happens in the one street-set chase scene, but they do a few shocking things in the prison.
On DVD: In Hell
There isn't a whole lot of crazy sh*t but Ringo (Maximum Risk) Lam does what he can with limited funds and locations. Most of the cool stuff happens in the one street-set chase scene, but they do a few shocking things in the prison.
- 2/23/2009
- www.canmag.com
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