Warner Bros. Home
Entertainment avoided the temptation of slamming director Andy Muschietti’s
smash film adaption of Stephen King’s It and director Denis Villeneuve’s
futuristic thriller, Blade Runner 2049, into the December
home entertainment launch window. With Dunkirk
in place on Dec. 19, both of these hits could easily wait until Q1’18 for genre
fans to savor.
It received a Jan. 9
street date and news arrived this past week that Blade Runner 2049, one of
the most anticipated films of 2017, will follow on Jan. 16 as a four-SKU
product launch.
The ARR works out to 102
days and the box office take currently stands at $90.8 million.
Planned for distribution
are a stand-alone DVD edition, a pair of Blu-ray selections — a Blu-ray/DVD
Combo Pack and a double-disc Blu-ray package featuring both 3D and 2D viewing
options — and a 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray Combo Pack.
The film is absolutely
gorgeous, and, as with last year’s Passengers from director Morten
Tyldum and screenwriter Jon Spaihts, Blade Runner 2049 plays out as a
solid sci-fi thriller and as a much deeper look at what it is to be human. It is also relentlessly depressing — even
more depressing than the fate of Aurora and Jim as they live out their lives on
the Avalon … never reaching their destination.
Ryan Gosling is “K,” a
new Blade Runner, and Harrison Ford returns as the world-weary Deckard, who
knows “stuff” that makes both him and K targets … hunted by both humans and androids.
As to bonus goodies,
common to all SKUs is the six-part presentation of “Blade Runner 101,” which
breaks down into “Blade Runners,” “The Replicant Evolution,” “The Rise of
Wallace Corp,” “Welcome to 2049,” “Joi” and “Within the Skies.” Exclusive to the Blu-ray/4K Ultra HD
configurations are two featurettes — “Designing The World of Blade Runner 2049”
and “To Be Human: Casting Blade Runner 2049” — and three “prologues” — “2022:
Black Out,” “2036: Nexus Dawn” and “2048: Nowhere to Run.”
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