Roger Deakins Will Be Cinematographer on Villeneuve's 'Blade Runner'

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This is when everyone should finally lose their sh*t. It has been officially announced that the new Blade Runner movie, being directed by Denis Villeneuve, will feature Roger Deakins as cinematographer. What?! DEAKINS?! Awesome, just awesome. Roger Deakins is one of the best cinematographers working today, only rivaled by the likes of Emmanuel Lubezki or Janusz Kaminski . He has been working with Denis Villeneuve on his last two films, shooting both Prisoners and Sicario (which just premiered at Cannes) for the Quebecois filmmaker. They’ll move onto Blade Runner, even though it likely won’t start shooting until 2016 sometime. No other details were revealed, and the press release doesn’t even mention Gosling (yet). ›››

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