The best part of the original 1982 Blade Runner was the dystopia Scott envisioned for the Los Angeles of 2019. We are now less than 8 years from that date; his dystopia has only partially come to pass.
Space travel is still far in the future, LA has its pollution under partial control, robots are not yet mistaken for humans, and instead of an Asian invasion, the city is largely Hispanic. I wonder how Scott will finesse these issues?
He has three obvious choices for the new film: use the present LA as a backdrop and do it as a prequel, treat the "world of Blade Runner" as an alternate universe so he can recreate the grim LA of the original, or move it farther into the future and make the new film a sequel.
