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That’s according to Ridley Scott, at least. During a conversation about the intersection of making films based on some of the oldest stories (such as Scott’s new Exodus) and science fiction, the subject of Blade Runner 2 came up. Scott has recently said the Blade Runner 2 script was going well, and that he was very happy with the results. And now he says that Harrison Ford is also incredibly happy with the draft — Scott none-too-humbly reports that Ford called the draft Scott and Hampton Fancher have been working on “the best thing I’ve ever read.”

While speaking to MTV, Scott talked about the Blade Runner 2 script and Harrison Ford. He said “it’s written and ready to go” and explained,

I sent him [the script] and he said ‘wow, this is the best thing I’ve ever read.’ It’s very relevant to what happened [in] the first one. I’m not just doing a sequel with lots of action and see how far we can go with the special effects, because you can’t really. [With] Blade Runner we kind of landed on a somehow very credible future. And it’s very difficult to change that because it’s been so influential with everything else.

We’d rather get that straight from Harrison Ford, frankly, but we’ll have to settle for this for now.

He also talks a bit about Prometheus 2, saying that, yeah, it’ll be Shaw and David’s story.

Oh, you have to. You can’t have a person go off into the galaxy and have a person who’s still got his head off. Once that head goes back on he’s really dangerous, but he’s also very seductive. So maybe he’ll persuade her to put the head back [on].

While Scott was originally set to direct Blade Runner 2, in recent weeks he has possibly fallen away from that particular role. Now, it appears that someone who is as-yet unnamed will direct the film in 2015 while Scott makes The Martian and gets to work on Prometheus 2.

(In the MTV interview, Scott says that “the right answer for now” is that he’s debating about whether or not to direct.)

Here’s the video, from MTV:

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Rumors are the best. They might be true. They might not. Who knows? It's the imagination's equivalent of having sex on ecstasy. Sexstasy. It's rumors that make the Internet go 'round.

Hey, we're on the Internet! It's probably about time we started some rumors for once. The popular kids in school used to do it, and look how popular they were! Now we just have to think up a good one, and spread it around the Internet and see what happens.

I once poked a hornet's nest to see what would happen. It was a really bad idea. Luckily, rumors are completely harmless and my pal Hamza says as long as you specify it's a rumor there will never be consequences for your actions. It's off to the rumor mill, then, let's mill some rumors! 

Hmm, let's see... I hear EA hooked up with Ubisoft at the party last weekend. Nah, too easy. Rockstar's dad sells drugs down by the 7-Eleven. Ngh, not good enough. Word on the playground is XSEED and Atlus are an item now. Yeah, Atari saw them holding hands down by the swingsets and -- No, no, no! We need something better. Something more believable, but totally scandalous.

Wait, wait, wait... Did you guys hear? Konami told Sierra that Sega has a crush on Nintendo. He always has. Oh my God, it makes so much sense! Sega was always picking on Nintendo when they were younger. Remember when he randomly kicked her in the shin, and then ran away and told everyone she had cooties? Yeah... Wow! I think we've really stumbled onto something here. 

Now it's like they're sort of friends. I think I've seen them playing footsie under the table, even! Oh my God, what if it's true, you guys? What if it's actually true? Hurry! Tell everyone!

27-year-old flaw and others slain in open-source patch batch

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Google+ just announced a simple tweak to its profile settings that lets you completely customize the gender field in your profile. In the past, you could select male, female, or other. Now, Google offers male, female, decline to state, and custom which prompts you to describe your gender however you'd like. Good job Google+!

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Tomas Nunuk and his friend made an unexpected change to their itinerary while hiking in the High Tatras Mountains in Slovakia last month

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