Blade Runner 2049

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Shooting Blade Runner 2049's Climactic Scene Was Two Weeks Of ... (/FILM)

There, K has intercepted the off-world transport carrying Luv and Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), who remains handcuffed inside while waves crash all around them ...

For the artists responsible for bringing it to life, "Blade Runner 2049" may have sometimes been a tough shoot, filled with blood, sweat, and tears โ€” in the snow, if not the rain. Lambert and other members of the "Blade Runner 2049" visual effects team spoke to Creative Bloq about the making of the movie, and as Rocky once said, it wasn't "all sunshine and rainbows." [...] We had the steps and part of the building but no glass on the front of the building. Double Negative was one of the studios operating under VFX supervisor John Nelson, who oversaw almost 1,200 shots involving visual effects for "Blade Runner 2049." We augmented that with the shape of K's Spinner as well as with additional light." The seawall scene in Denis Villeneuve's movie โ€” the 2017 sequel to Ridley Scott's original 1982 "Blade Runner" film โ€” was shot on a set in a water tank in Budapest. And according to Paul Lambert, the resident VFX supervisor for Double Negative, it involved "two weeks of night shooting with simulated rain and wind."

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