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Blade Runner 2 to be made –
Harrison Ford will reprise his role as the ambiguous bounty hunter Rick Deckard in a sequel to 1982’s Blade Runner. Variety reports that the Oscar-nominated director Denis Villeneuve is close to signing on as director, replacing Ridley Scott, who will produce. Hampton Fancher, who co-wrote the original screenplay, has written the sequel with The Green Lantern writer Michael Green. [Daily Telegraph]
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Round hens egg sells for £480 –
A “perfectly spherical” chicken egg has sold for an “unbelievable” £480 on the internet auction site eBay. Kim Broughton found one of her hens – now renamed Ping Pong – had laid the round egg in her garden in Latchingdon, Essex, on 17 February – Pancake Day. She decided to auction the egg in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust after a friend’s son died from the disease. Ms Broughton, 44, said she imagined the buyer was interested in preserving, rather than eating, the unusual egg. [BBC] The round egg
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Top quotes from the original Blade Runner Movie (1982)
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- Roy Batty:
- Not very sporting to fire on an unarmed opponent. I thought you were supposed to be good. Aren’t you the “good” man? C’mon, Deckard. Show me what you’re made of.
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- Rick Deckard:
- Replicants are like any other machine, are either a benefit or a hazard. If they’re a benefit it’s not my problem.
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- Gaff:
- It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again who does?
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- Roy Batty:
- I’ve done questionable things.
- Tyrell:
- Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time.
- Roy Batty:
- Nothing the God of bio-mechanics wouldn’t let you in heaven for.
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- Roy Batty:
- Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled round their shores. Burning with the fires of Orc.
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- Gaff:
- It’s a shame that she won’t live, but then again, who does?
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- Roy Batty:
- I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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- Tyrell:
- More human than human is our motto.
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- Harry Bryant:
- You know the score,pal. If you’re not a cop, you’re little people!
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- A series of car bombs kill 19 people in Balad Ruz, east-central Iraq. (AP via News 24)
- International relations
- Lithuania–United States relations:
- Lithuania signs a trade agreement to buy liquified natural gas from the United States in a move aimed at reducing theEU Baltic state‘s heavy dependence on Russian gas deliveries. (Reuters)
- Law and crime
- The municipal intermediate people’s court for the eastern city of Dongying convicts Ni Fake, former Vice-Governor ofAnhui province in China, on charges of bribery and “amassing wealth of unclear origin”, and sentences him to seventeen years in prison. (The Guardian)
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