Apparently, actor Ryan Gosling is in negotiations to star alongside Harrison Ford in the sequel to Blade Runner, from Alcon Entertainment.

Details about exactly which role Gosling will be playing are being kept quiet, but Ford will be returning to his role as the replicant hunter and former officer, Rick Deckard.

The film will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, who directed Prisoners. The film's screenplay was written by Hampton Fancher who helped to write the original film with David Peoples. Ridley Scott will be executive producing the film.

In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Scott said that the Blade Runner sequel is "written and it's damn good." In the interview, which took place last January, he confirmed that the sequel would feature Harrison.

The sequel is set to take place several decades after the events of the original film, which debuted in 1982. The original film was an adaptation of the 1968 novel called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep written by Philip K. Dick.

As of 2011, Alcon Entertainment has gained the rights to the Blade Runner series from producer Bud Yorkin, which will allow the studio to produce not only this sequel, but prequels to the original film as well.

Yorkin will produce the sequel along with Andrew A Kosove and Broderick Johnson, co-founders of Alcon Entertainment.

The executive producers will be Scott, Frank Giustra and Tim Gamble, and Cynthia Sikes Yorkin will also co-produce.

The film is scheduled to start principal photography this summer. The next role that Gosling will appear in is in the crime mystery film, The Nice Guys.