Blade Runner 2049 Official Teaser Trailer (2017)

[Nutso]

From the comments:

Ford agreed to this on the sole condition that Ryan shoot him off a catwalk towards the end of the film after the twist that they're father and son.

[Graham Kennedy]

Indiana, Han, Deckard. Has he got sick of making new movies or something?

[Mikey]

Everything about this - especially Scott's name being absent from the "director" position - screams "bad idea." You have an original movie that was problematically based on a great novel... then you make a sequel with no basis in that or any subsequent novel?

[Nutso]

The thing I wonder besides what Mikey wrote above, is does this srquel believe that Deckard is a replicant like Ridley Scott wanted, or is Deckard a human who learns that he is less human than the replicants he hunts, like Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer wanted? Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott infamously fought over this movie. I assume human since Deckard ages, and also Harrison Ford would not come back for Star Wars unless they killed Han Solo. So I presume that Deckard would have to be human if they wanted Harrison Ford back.

[Mikey]

Well, by the point of this movie he would have been long past the expected "shelf life" of replicants from his heyday. I had another thought: admittedly, this is just based on visual impressions, but the look of this seems to impose a lot more of the Mercerist philosophy from Dick's book onto Gosling's character. There is, however, no precedent in Dick's writings for this sequel. So; is this truly a written-for-film sequel to the 1982 film, is it an alternate interpretation based on one or the other viewpoints Nutso described, or is it an attempt at a truer interpretation of the book?

[Graham Kennedy]

Ford's ending voiceover said Rachel had no end-by date. So if he is a Replicant, its possible he doesn't either.

If, of course, you consider the voiceover to be a real part of the story!

[Mikey]

Well, that's a whole other kettle of (artificial) fish...

In any event, though, if Deckard were a replicant, he'd have to have been an earlier model than the likely singular Rachel.