Sharpening the Blade

Thirty years after Blade Runner, the cult sci-fi thriller which seems to have spawned more cuts than a van load of prime beef, it's reported that the subject matter is about to get a completely fresh makeover by the man who created it - Ridley, now Sir Ridley, Scott.

Scott, now 73, and currently hard at work on the futuristic Prometheus, which apparently has echoes of the director's most enduring classic, Alien, won't be the first filmmaker to return to his own original subject matter.

Directors from Michael Haneke (Funny Games) to George Sluizer (The Vanishing) have gone down the same route albeit within a shorter time period, so it's unlikely we'll see the likes of Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young or Daryl Hannah recreating their iconic roles from 1982.