With the final – we assume, as it seems director Denis Villeneuve is adding people all the time – piece of casting in place for the still-not-officially-named Blade Runner sequel via Jared Leto's hiring, you'd assume the announcements about team members would be done. You'd be wrong! Iceland Monitor brings word of a radio interview with Sicario composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, who says that he'll reunite with the director for the new sci-fi film.
We still don't know much about the new movie plot-wise beyond the fact that it takes place decades after Ridley Scott's 1982 original (itself set in 2019) and features the return of Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard alongside new characters played by Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Carla Juri, Mackenzie Davis, Barkhad Abdi and Leto.
Scott is acting as executive producer for this one, which will apparently find the Earth's environment in an even more precarious position than the first Blade's rain-sodden Los Angeles.
Villeneuve is reuniting some of his Sicario collaborators including cinematographer Roger Deakins and now Jóhannsson, who has also worked on the score for the director's next release, alien drama Arrival, which has a UK release date of November 11. The Blade Runner sequel, meanwhile, will be with us on October 6, 2017.