Alcon Entertainment has an offer out to Harrison Ford to reprise his role of Rick Deckard in its Ridley Scott-directed sequel to Blade Runner. Original screenwriter Hampton Fancher and Michael Green are writing the new one, which takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original. Alcon Entertainment acquired the Blade Runner’s film, television and ancillary rights in 2011 from producer Bud Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels of the sci-fi cult classic. Yorkin will serve as a producer on the sequel along with Kosove and Johnson. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will co-produce. blade_runnerFrank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEO’s of Thunderbird Films, will serve as executive producers. Alcon actually sent a press release out that it offered the role to Ford (which is unusual in itself), but Ford gave an interview recently that he was anxious to see the script for Blade Runner. He has expressed interest in reprising the role in the past, but no deal is set as he has yet to read the script.


If Ford agrees to the script, this is the second audience-pleasing role that the actor would be stepping into. He is also set in the next installment of the Star Wars franchise as the actor is currently readying to reprise his role as Hans Solo in Star Wars with Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill in Star Wars: Episode VII for filmmaker J.J. Abrams which Disney plans to release December 18, 2015.