Most people think it took 35 years to make a follow-up to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner with Blade Runner 2049, and officially, they’re right. But unofficially, they’re forgetting something. Which is pretty ironic, since they’re forgetting a show called Total Recall 2070.
First broadcast in 1999, the Canadian television series Total Recall 2070 was an ambitious sci-fi production that combined elements of multiple Philip K. Dick stories and fused them into a single storyline. The title of the series came from Total Recall, probably because (unlike Blade Runner) that film was an enormous financial success, but the aesthetic of the show was clearly inspired by Ridley Scott’s film, and the storylines were more focused on issues of androids and their burgeoning humanity, like in Dick’s original novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which Blade Runner was based on.
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First broadcast in 1999, the Canadian television series Total Recall 2070 was an ambitious sci-fi production that combined elements of multiple Philip K. Dick stories and fused them into a single storyline. The title of the series came from Total Recall, probably because (unlike Blade Runner) that film was an enormous financial success, but the aesthetic of the show was clearly inspired by Ridley Scott’s film, and the storylines were more focused on issues of androids and their burgeoning humanity, like in Dick’s original novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, which Blade Runner was based on.
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