In comes visionary Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, who bravely stepped into Ridley Scott's shoes to direct the 2017 ...

Thirty years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), a new Blade Runner, L.A.P.D. Officer "K" (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society ...

But I was constantly thinking about the original film as I was making Blade Runner 2049. It was impossible not to.” And frankly, it sounds like he’s still thinking about it, seven years later.

Blade Runner 2049 has bounced about on streaming services globally over the past few years, and it's now available on the BBC iPlayer, a free streaming platform in the UK, but only for a limited time.