Given Blade Runner 2049’s pedigree – Denis Villeneuve on directing duties, Roger Deakins handling the cinematography – we’d have been taken aback had the movie not looked stunning, and, of course, it does. Could K be the dead replicant’s missing son? The date carved at the foot of the tree where the replicant mother was buried matches K’s memory of the same six numbers carved on the base of his favourite toy, a wooden horse.
K, already ambivalent about his job as an executioner, feels a growing emotional pull around the mission. Joshi’s command is that K must find and kill the child born of the replicant before the truth gets out. Spurred on by his unblinking boss, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright), K begins to investigate further. On closer investigation, K learns that the woman was a replicant – which raises the extraordinary suggestion that Tyrell’s last great experiment was to create a non-human capable of reproduction. During one of his missions, at the house of a runaway replicant working as a protein farmer (Dave Bautista), K discovers a locked box buried at the foot of a tree.īack at the police headquarters in Los Angeles, it’s discovered that the bones belong to a woman who died in childbirth. It falls to K to find and kill the last of the Tyrell series of replicants, the Nexus-8.
Wallace’s predecessor, the Tyrell Corporation, shut down decades earlier, leaving him to take over the job of making artificial slaves. The truth is accidentally uncovered by a new blade runner, the taciturn K (Ryan Gosling), a new breed of replicant created by tech genius Niander Wallace (a bearded Jared Leto).
In Blade Runner 2049, the entire plot pivots on Deckard being an artificial creation: “Otherwise,” Scott says, rapping the table for emphasis, “there’s no story.”Īs written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, Blade Runner 2049 reveals what happened after those elevator doors closed all those years ago.
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