Alcon Entertainment announced today that Robin Wright is in final negotiations to join the upcoming Blade Runner sequel, starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.

With pre-production in high gear, Alcon Entertainment has decided to move up the release date of its “Blade Runner” sequel from January 2018 to October 2017.

Alcon is now set to release the pic on Oct. 6, 2017, shifting it from its original date of Jan. 12, 2018. Harrison Ford is set to return as Det. Rick Deckard and Ryan Gosling and Robin Wright are set to co-star in the film from “Sicario” director Denis Villeneuve.

Mackenzie Davis, the actress who appeared in The Martian and also stars in Halt and Catch Fire, has joined the cast of Alcon Entertainment’s sequel to Blade Runner.

The actress will now join Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in the sci-fi project, being directed by Denis Villeneuve, the acclaimed filmmaker behind drug drama Sicario. The roll call also includes Dave Bautista, Ana de Armas, Carla Juri and Robin Wright.

Plot details are being kept under wraps but it is known that the story takes place several decades after the conclusion of the 1982 original and that Ford is reprising his role as replicant hunter Rick Deckard.

Hampton Fancher (co-writer of the original) and Michael Green wrote the new screenplay based on an idea by Fancher and Ridley Scott.

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in July with Warner Bros. distributing in North America and Sony Pictures Releasing International handling the rest of the world.

The role is a get for Davis, the Canadian actress who’s skewed more toward indie fare — her feature debut was Breathe In with Guy Pearce and then she starred in the alcoholism drama Smashed from James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, The End of the Tour), with most of her work being in that field.

She does star in Catch Fire, AMC’s 1980s tech drama that also features Lee Pace and Scoot McNairy.

Davis is repped by UTA,

‘Walking Dead’ Actor Lennie James Joins ‘Blade Runner’ Sequel
Justin Kroll:Film Reporter @krolljvar
JULY 26, 2016 | 10:24AM PT

“The Walking Dead” actor Lennie James is in negotiations to join the “Blade Runner” sequel starring Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling.

Directed by “Sicario” helmer Denis Villeneuve, the film also stars Robin Wright and Mackenzie Davis. Cinematographer Roger Deakins will reunite with Villeneuve on the project.

The sequel, set several decades after the original, is written by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, and succeeds the initial story by Fancher and David Peoples, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Plot details are still under wraps.

The movie hits theaters on Oct. 6, 2017.

Warner Bros. is handling domestic distribution, while Sony is taking on international distribution.

Alcon Entertainment acquired the film, television and ancillary franchise rights to “Blade Runner” in 2011 from the late producer Bud Yorkin and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic sci-fi thriller. Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will produce along with Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove. Bud Yorkin will receive a producer credit.

Ridley Scott will serve as executive producer. Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, CEOs of Thunderbird Films, will also executive produce along with Bill Carraro.

James is best known as Morgan on AMC’s hit zombie drama “The Walking Dead.” On the film side, he most recently portrayed James Brown’s father, Joseph Gardner Brown, in the biopic “Get on Up.”

James is repped by UTA, Independent Talent Group and the Lasher Group.