Way before HBO brought us Westworld's humanoid robots, there was Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's 1982 cult hit about a dystopic Los Angeles populated by replicants. Over 30 years have passed since Scott's film -- and also in its world, where things pick up in the trailer for Blade Runner 2049. SEE ALSO: New'Twin Peaks' trailer consists of David Lynch eating a doughnut, and nothing else Sometime during those three decades, Rick Deckard (Ford) has disappeared. Ryan Gosling plays K, a new-school LAPD blade runner who seeks Rick's help with an emerging threat. "Thirty years after the events of the first film, a new blade runner, LAPD Officer K (Ryan 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 Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former LAPD blade runner who has been missing for 30 years."