Granted, this is not an official prequel – there’s no young Rick Deckard who will grow into Harrison Ford’s grizzled, Replicant-hunting police officer. The human/machine hybrid, Morgan, is played by Anya Taylor-Joy, whose big screen career got off to an excellent, creepy start with the 2015 horror The Witch. If you know your Blade Runner, you’ll remember the Voight-Kampff test, designed to “provoke an emotional response” in the subject. Some trailers for the film seem to place it in the horror genre, but it’s really more of a thoughtful thriller. And while it is set firmly in the present, or at best a few years out, the message is clear; the days of Blade Runner are closer than we may think.

Source: National Post September 02, 2016 12:56 UTC