this guy wasn't a clone or an android or a robot. So what's left? I used replicant and nobody objected." Replicant is obviously a direct nod to Blade Runner, and characters like Roy Batty (Rutger ...
Blade Runner 2049 is not a story about the future. Or at least, it's not about our future. It's set in the year 2049, but it's the year 2049 as extrapolated from the year 2019 as it was imagined ...