Halt & Blade Runner
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 at 3:41PM 
Jason from MNPP here with a quite happy bit of new news - we've been a little on the wary side of the Blade Runner sequel. Even as excellent stuff was announced - Harrison Ford returning is excellent stuff! And we're probably bigger fans of director Denis Villeneuve as of this moment in time than we are of Ridley Scott as of this moment in time (that's our way of saying if we were talking about "Ridley Scott as of the 1980s" it would be a different story). These are all net positives!
And yet we're wary. We're talking about Blade Runner here! The film that basically built the entire aesthetic of cinematic dystopia on its slick neon-in-the-rain shoulders. You kind of can't look at any movie set in the future that was made in the past 34 years and not see its influence.
Well today we're a smidge less wary, and we might actually be on our way to excited, because the film's just cast one of our very favorite actresses - Mackenzie Davis from Halt and Catch Fire (which is so underrated it pains my insides) as well as the terrific upcoming thriller Always Shine, which I reviewed from the Tribeca Film Festival (and which she won Best Actress at that same festival for). No word on who she's playing (naturally they're keeping everything tight to the vest) but I get a little giddy picturing her done up a la Daryl Hannah's Pris, I have to say.
Reader Comments (3)
Exciting casting! Halt & Catch Fire is great and no one watches it!! Definitely worth the watch for that cast (Davis, Skoot MacNairy, and Lee Pace for god's sake!) alone!
I just saw The Martian and I liked her role in that as I was amazed she was able to standout amongst that large ensemble she was in.
It was a little painful to watch scenes in The Martian between an Alice Park that doesn't look Korean (Mackenzie Davis) and a Vincent Kapoor that doesn't look Indian (Chiwetel Ejiofor). The latter is described as half-Indian, and there are Asian actors playing other characters, but none who work for NASA.
I'm looking forward to Season 3 of Halt and Catch Fire even though the characters played by Lee Pace, Scoot McNairy, and Mackenzie Davis can be quite annoying. I must like Kerry Bishé a lot.