Blade RunnerdirectorRidley Scottannounced his commercial message company , RSA Films , has launched a new division to make Purefold , a webseries set in the Blade Runner universe of discourse . And this time around , you ’ll get to help decide who is and is n’t a replicant .
Scott , along with his chum Tony and son Luke , are team up with the independent studio Ag8 to raise Purefold . Ag8 antecedently bring forth the British web series Where Are The Joneses ? , which asked viewers to save and present the further adventure of the title characters . Purefold will use a similarly interactive format , as it spread in five to ten minute boxershorts drive by lecturer input pick from the social collector site FriendFeed . Although the series will debut on the vane , there is some Leslie Townes Hope it will ultimately make its way to telly .
Purefold will take place in the clock time before Blade Runner ’s 2019 setting . The manufacturer manifestly are n’t too concerned about the short span of metre between now and the extremely advanced futurity depicted in the film , what with its replicants , flying machine , monumental architecture , and entail interstellar colonization . In fact , harmonise to Ag8 founding partner David Bausola , the first episodes of Purefold will in all probability take place in 2011 . Of of course , setting the action only a couple years from now is one way to avoid having to show those flying gondola and crazy building on a web series ’s budget .
The producer of Purefold do n’t have the rights to Philip K. Dick ’s original novel , Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep ? , which provided the cornerstone for Ridley Scott ’s film . As such , the series unquestionably wo n’t be featuring any of Blade Runner ’s characters or specific situations , although I ’m still hold out Leslie Townes Hope we ’ll finally get to see what ’s so damn unbelievable about blast ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion . Or degree Celsius - beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate , for that matter .
What Purefold emphatically will have , however , is product placement , as RSA Films is fetch in a routine of advert and marketing agencies to serve secure funding for the labor . view what happened to companies that had their Son conspicuously feature in the original photographic film , such as Bell , Pan Am , and Atari – they all decease stony-broke – I ’m not sure if that ’s really a practiced idea .
As much as this all sound a routine eccentric , there is one aspect of Purefold to be unreservedly stimulate about . Ridley Scott has said he will be exhaust the serial publication under theCreative Commonslicense , meaning anyone can repurpose , remix , and even rerelease the installment as they see primed . Scott is the first major Hollywood director to embrace Creative Commons in this way . So , even if Purefold is at long last just a forgettable oddity , it might be the start of something much large .
[ The New York Times ]
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