“To combat many years of violent seasonal storms, China has developed an especially robust strain of wheat. When a global wheat blight hits the world in 2038, the Chinese strain turns out to be almost completely resistant to the blight, whilst harvests across the US perish quickly. In order to …

“what would it take to make a movie of Bladerunner's imaginative power, set in a positive future?” He paused for a second and said he thought it'd be very difficult, that catharsis is so important to people, and people are so terrified of the future, that you'd need some completely …