The web is getting more Hollywood all the time. Last year, Joss Whedon made some waves with Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the quite funny web-based musical that had geeks everywhere humming along. Now Ridley Scott is planning his own web series set in the Blade Runner universe. It’s already got a cryptic but catchy title: Purefold. Scott doesn’t own the rights to Blade Runner or the Philip K. Dick novel on which the movie is based, so this will all be done with a wink and nod. The Tyrell Corporation will instead be called [insert vaguely ominous-sounding name for a futuristic conglomerate here] and replicants will be instead be called [insert your favorite synonym for “robots” or “clones” here]. What remains to be seen is whether the characters will spout paraphrases of William Blake poetry.
Scott plans on releasing the series under a Creative Commons license, which means that anyone can edit, mash, or otherwise play with the original video to create something new and share without fear of getting sued into oblivion. It won’t surprise me at all if the remixes are better than the original.
