Denis Villeneuve

‘Blade Runner 2049’ Wanted David Bowie to Play the Antagonist
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Wanted David Bowie to Play the Antagonist
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Wanted David Bowie to Play the Antagonist
It wouldn’t be a Blade Runner movie without a nasty villain, and Blade Runner 2049 has a pretty creepy antagonist. Jared Leto plays blind replicant engineer Niander Wallace, a stand-in of sorts for Joe Turkel’s Eldon Tyrell, but he wasn’t originally the first choice for the role. That would have been David Bowie.
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Prequel Introduces Dave Bautista’s Sapper
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Prequel Introduces Dave Bautista’s Sapper
‘Blade Runner 2049’ Prequel Introduces Dave Bautista’s Sapper
A couple of weeks ago, Warner Bros. released the first in a trilogy of short prequel films for Blade Runner 2049. Set in 2036, that short introduced us to Jared Leto’s enigmatic antagonist Niander Wallace. The second prequel short dropped today, and it gives us a little background on another new character: Sapper, played by Dave Bautista, who gets to put some of those famous pro-wrestling skills to use in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic.

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