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Warner Bros released the official full-length trailer for long-anticipated sci-fi sequel Blade Runner 2049 on Monday at an event in Los Angeles with stars Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford.


Denis Villeneuve's follow-up Shaquille O'Neal Celtics Jersey , set some 30 years after the events of cult classic Blade Runner (1982), sees Ford reprise his role from Ridley Scott's original as Rick Deckard, a Los Angeles cop who hunts rogue androids.


"The character is woven into the story in a way that intrigued me. There's a very strong emotional context... I think it's interesting to develop a character after a period of time, to revisit a character," said Ford, 74, at a discussion panel at the IMAX headquarters.


Gosling, 36, leads a cast of newcomers including Robin Wright and Jared Leto, who appears to be a manufacturer of the androids - or "replicants" - of future Los Angeles, and opens the trailer caressing a newborn, naked android.


"Every civilization was built off the back of a disposable workforce, but I can only make so many," says Leto, 45, wishing the android a "happy birthday."


Wright, 51, appears to be some kind of authority figure.


"There is an order to things. That's what we do here - we keep order," she says.


The footage was praised by movie websites, which noted Villeneuve's success in emulating the gritty, dust-covered cinematography of the original.


But it reveals nothing of the plot beyond the official setup from the studio publicity, which says a new "blade runner," LAPD Officer K (Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos.


K's discovery leads him on a quest to find Deckard, who has been missing for 30 years.


The trailer follows an early teaser released in December, and more extensive footage shown at CinemaCon, the Las Vegas convention for theater operators, in March.


"Prepare to start going steady with the edge of your seats," Gosling joked as he introduced bleak scenes from Los Angeles and a snow-bound Las Vegas, all of which were filmed in Budapest.


Gosling, who was 2 when the original came out, told the panel in Los Angeles he didn't see it for at least another 10 years.


"The first film made me question what it meant to be a human being. It made me question my ability to recognize the hero from the villain," Gosling said.


The trailer also offers a fleeting glance at US wrestling champion turned action hero Dave Bautista, 48, who told AFP in a recent interview he thought the new movie was better than the original.


"And I'm saying that because I think the script is better, it's deeper," said Bautista, whose own contribution remains a tightly guarded secret.


"I think it's a better story, I think it's told in a better way, and I think it just answers a lot of questions. It's going to be great."


Blade Runner 2049 is due for release on October 6.

Czech Barbora Strycova hits a return to Johanna Konta of Britain en route to her 7-5, 7-6 (5), second-round victory at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on September 21, 2017.

Caroline Wozniacki kept her title defense alive at the Pan Pacific Open in Tokyo on Thursday after eking out a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 win over Shelby Rogers to secure a place in the quarterfinals.


The former world No. 1 trailed 0-3 in the decider before securing victory after toiling for more than two hours.


Pulling off an upset seemed on Rogers' mind as the American fended off three break points in the 10th game to clinch the first set.


Wozniacki wrestled back momentum in the second, converting two break points before firing back-to-back aces to force a decider.


Rogers raced to a 3-0 lead in the third set before Wozniacki staged a brilliant comeback, claiming six of the last seven games to advance to the next round.


"I knew she has powerful strokes and a big serve. it definitely was not easy," Wozniacki said in a courtside interview. "I'm just happy to win this one."


Wozniacki will face Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova in the last eight after the fifth seed thrashed Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-2, 6-2 in just 68 minutes.


Earlier, Barbora Strycova registered her first win over a top-10 player this year when the Czech edged out Britain's Johanna Konta 7-5, 7-6 (5).


Fourth seeded Konta dominated the early proceedings in her first meeting with Strycova and raced to a 3-0 lead before the Czech broke her back and went on to claim the first set.


Konta's dominant backhand put her 5-4 ahead but the British No. 1 could not serve out the second set, allowing Strycova to force a tiebreak and eventually seal the match.


"I'm very happy, because this match meant a lot to me," Strycova said.


"I don't have any words to say because I'm very emotional and very happy that I won against Johanna," said the 31-year-old who meets Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in the quarterfinal.


Ninth seed Caroline Garcia of France beat local favorite Kurumi Nara 6-1, 6-3 to set up a quarterfinal clash with Spanish world No. 1 Garbine Muguruza.


In Seoul, South Korea, top seed Jelena Ostapenko dispatched Japanese rival Nao Hibino 6-2, 6-2 on Thursday to secure a spot in the Korean Open quarterfinals, as she seeks to move up the world ranking.