Movie titles get change all the time , it just materialise . Sometimes it ’s inauspicious , like when Antonio Banderas ’ Eaters of the Dead became The 13th Warrior — sure , the film would ’ve sucked no matter what , but that original claim was so much cooler . Other prison term , modify the form of address is a blessing , which is exactly what happened with Blade Runner 2049 .
In an interview withMonsters and Critics , Alcon representative Andrew Kosove share one of the original planned titles for the sequel to the iconic scifi film . Blade Runner : Androids Dream .
Yeah sure , it technically makes sense . Blade Runner is based on Philip K. Dick ’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep , and androids stargaze is kind of a plot point in both films , but that title go really silly . Not to mention that there ’s another Dick project with asimilar name . Kosove read they at long last settle to name it 2049 because it would be “ round-eyed and clean ” to go with something direct or else of metaphoric . That said , it sounds like he would ’ve preferred the other one … if it was n’t a bit of a plunderer .
“ I actually really like that title but with the welfare of hindsight , I ’m very happy we ended up with the title we did because I retrieve it ’s a little leading , ” Kosove state .
Kosove also shared some of the lick titles during former evolution of the picture , and the reasons behind them . When co - writer Hampton Fancher was working on the early handling , he called it Acid Zoo . Then , when Kosove get along along , they changed it to Queensboro because it was the New York bridge he ’d take to get to Fancher in Brooklyn . That was the working title used when the tarradiddle wasfirst pitchedto director Denis Villeneuve , interestingly enough . unluckily , some fan eventually figured out that Queensboro was the working script for the Blade Runner sequel , so it was in secret changed to Triborough , named after another NYC span .
“ [ The line producer was ] like , ‘ Well , people detect out that Blade Runner was Queensboro so we picked a unlike bridge to jump off of . ’ That is the evolution . Actual titles , different ace were kicked around . I should n’t say which ones they were , ” co - author Michael Green said .
Blade Runner 2049 is decidedly the most logical out of all of the presented titles , though I have to admit , it would ’ve been cool to see Blade Runner : Acid Zoo on the marquee . It may not have made any sense , but much like Eaters of the Dead , it just sounds really , really cool .
[ Monsters and Critics ]
Clarification : Andrew Kosove was incorrectly named as Cosgrove , this has been fixed .
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