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A BRUTAL
© Warner Bros. Pictures
When Denis Villeneuve and I began Blade Runner 2049, I asked him if there was
a word he would use to describe the movie. He paused, and then said, "Brutality."
Sitting with him in Montreal in the dead of winter, this ironically set the path we
were about to travel.
I recalled an old story from 1981, which I thought might interest him. During a
meeting I had while working with Dean Tavoularis at Zoetrope Studios, Dean got
a call from Francis Coppola saying someone wanted to buy the neon signs from
Bibi's View. Concept
art by Victor Martinez
done in Form•Z and
Photoshop.