Blade Runner 2 Gets Robin Wright, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling

Harrison Ford reprised his role as Han Solo in 2015, and he'll back as Indiana Jones in 2019. Before that, though, he'll reprise arguably his third-most-iconic role, detective Rick Deckard, in the 2018 sequel to 1982's Blade Runner. Ford will be joined in the sequel's cast by some other big-name actors as the cult-hit story gets a 21st-century treatment.

Ford had already signed on to the project and Ryan Gosling had been cast as the lead in the new film, but news surfaced this week that Robin Wright was also close to reaching an agreement with the film's producers to play a "key role" in the new story. Wright, who currently stars in the popular Netflix series House of Cards, had reportedly been on the Blade Runner producers' wish list, but it took some time to work the movie into her schedule.

Like Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, which was set 30-plus years after the previous Star Wars installment in order to account for the advanced age of the franchise's original stars, the new Blade Runner film will be set a few decades after the original.

The new film will be directed by Sicario director Denis Villeneuve; the original was directed by Ridley Scott.