Though we still don't know many details beyond Harrison Ford's return, Ryan Gosling co-starring, a time shift and who will be calling the shots, we do know when Blade Runner's sequel will launch onto screens. It's now scheduled to hit American cinemas on January 12, 2018.
The film is under Warner Bros.' banner, so that might mean a day-and-date release here, but there has been no official confirmation yet. The Stateside date might seem strange for the film you'd expect to arrive closer to summer, but it appears to be taking advantage of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend.
Sicario's Denis Villeneuve is the man directing, working from a script by Alien: Covenant's Michael Green and original Runner co-writer Hampton Fancher. The plot is largely still being kept classified, but it'll feature the return of Ford's Rick Deckard in a story set decades after the end of Ridley Scott's 1982 sci-fi classic.
With Scott overseeing things as executive producer, the cameras will be rolling in July. Hopefully we'll soon find out who else will be populating the futuristic world originally conjured up by author Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?