Usually found stalking the corridors of power and manipulating everyone in her path as the scheming Claire Underwood on House Of Cards, Robin Wright is taking on a very different type of story for a new film role. She's joining Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling in the cast of the Blade Runner sequel.
The long-awaited (and sometimes feared) follow-up to Ridley Scott's 1982 tech-noir classic is gearing up to shoot this July with Sicario's Denis Villeneuve directing and Scott acting as a producer.
Villeneuve is working from a script by Hampton Fancher (who co-wrote the original) and Alien: Covenant's Michael Green, which aims to continue the story of Ford's Rick Deckard several decades after the end of the first film. Quite what he'll be up to, how Gosling and now Wright fit in and exactly what sort of character the latter will play is still being kept behind a firewall, but it may touch on the idea that Deckard might not be as human as he once thought, in a world where genetically engineered replicants can pass for regular people. OR WILL IT? Nobody outside of the film knows at this point.
With Sicario cinematographer Roger Deakins aboard, the still-untitled sequel is scheduled to hit UK screens on January 12, 2018, just one year before the original is set. And yet still our cars do not fly, at least not outside of the Fast & Furious franchise. Boooo....