Quebec director Denis Villeneuve's highly anticipated Blade Runner sequel will open Montreal's Festival du nouveau cinéma. "We are now the only festival in the world to obtain the authorization to screen it," festival director Nicolas Girard Deltruc said in a phone interview. I think it's proof that we are an important film festival." Harrison Ford, star of Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic Blade Runner, will reprise his role as Rick Deckard in Denis Villeneuve's upcoming sequel, Blade Runner 2049. Film director Denis Villeneuve, seen in Cannes in 2015, is director a sequel three decades removed from Blade Runner's initial release.

Source: CBC News September 21, 2017 17:48 UTC