Last week, fanboys and I’m sure some film historians were aghast with the news that at one time EAGLE EYE writers Travis Wright and John Glenn had been hired to write a sequel to Ridley Scott’s early 80’s classic BLADE RUNNER which would set out to answer the many mysteries that play their part in making the first movie so full of longevity.

Soon after Wright made the announcement (which he coincides was a mistake) of the seqeul, Glenn came out and publicly stated he no longer had anything to do with the project. But what of Wright, was he still working on a sequel to one of the most critically lauded science fiction films of all time, or as I said at the time was it dead before we even knew anything about it?

Wright has attempted to answer these questions in an e-mail to /film…

• He confirms that he was paid by Warner Bros. to come up with a script for BLADE RUNNER 2, a job he soon wishes to fullfil but reiterates that no script has ever been written as of yet.

• He confirms that John Glenn hasn’t worked with him on this particular project for years but does admit that he could receive a screenplay credit depending on how much of his ideas end up in any potential finished script.

• Working with the original movie’s producer Bud Yorkin, both Wright and Glenn pitched many ideas for how the sequel should go but were turned down by the studio. This was between 2003 and 2005.

Questions he wanted to explore with his sequel…

What does it mean to be human? That’s the central question in life and the paramount question in Science Fiction.  More pointedly: Is or isn’t Deckard a replicant? What happens to Rachel?  What are the off world colonies like? What happens to replicants once Tyrell is killed by one of his creations?

Outside of BLADE RUNNER, he has been writing a “space movie on the epic level of STAR WARS” titled THE THIRD FLOOR and has been working closely with Bud Yorkin on it.