Don’t let the title of this story scare you. It’s being written, but there’s probably no reason to think it will ever happen. According to Slashfilm though, Travis Wright and John Glenn, the guys who wrote Eagle Eye are currently working on writing a sequel to Blade Runner.

The reason you don’t need to panic, is that this is just something they’re doing on their own. Obviously they want this to be turned into a movie, presumably because they hate the world, but they don’t seem to have the support of anyone that matters. It’s not backed by a studio or supported by anyone who actually owns any of the rights to the original movie. This is two guys writing Blade Runner 2 because, well, I guess they weren’t creative enough to come up with their own idea. At least that’s what I assume, whenever I hear someone is writing an unasked for sequel script.

This sort of thing happens all the time by the way. Every other week or so there’s some lower level Hollywood writer trying to get attention for himself by writing a sequel to something people care about. In every case, it amounts to nothing. No doubt this will too, especially once all of you start screaming about what an obviously awful idea this is. Blade Runner is a self-contained classic. There’s no room for a sequel, and I’m pretty sure that except for Travis Wright and John Glenn, no one wants one.