Blade Runner 2049: Gosling & Ford in first trailer

The first trailer for the long-awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner is here, featuring Ryan Gosling and the 1982 film’s star, Harrison Ford

Oh boy, this is exciting. The first trailer for Denis Villeneuve’s followup to Blade Runner, titled Blade Runner 2049, has just arrived online, and it’s tantalising. It doesn’t reveal much in the way of the new film’s plot, but the teaser is dripping with atmosphere.

“Replicants are like any other machine, they are either a benefit or a hazard,” Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard says in the trailer’s voiceover, which calls to mind the much-maligned narration from the original theatrical cut of the film. “If they’re a benefit it’s not my problem.”

We then see a trenchcoat-wearing figure walk through mist which suggest LA hasn’t fixed its pollution problems since the first film. In fact, the world we see in Villeneuve’s movie, set 30 years after the events in Ridley Scott’s original, has really gone to seed.

According to Alcon Entertainment's official synopsis, Gosling is a new blade runner, mysteriously named K, who’s trying to unearth a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. In the trailer we see K meet up with Deckard in an abandoned looking city choking on a red dust cloud (the gorgeous photography is by the Coen Bros’ favorite, Roger Deakins).

“I had your job once,” says Deckard while pointing his gun at K. “I was good at it.”

“Things were simpler then,” is K’s mysterious response. Colour us intrigued.

Blade Runner 2049 is released 6 Oct by Sony. Take a look at the trailer in the player above.