Another Hollywood sequel is in the works. Director Ridley Scott, 76, confirmed in a interview with Variety that Blade Runner 2 is in the works, but that he will not return to the director’s chair.

According to the Guardian, news of the Blade Runner sequel surfaced in 2011 when Scott’s production company Alcon Entertainment announced that Scott was attached to direct. In 2012 the original movie’s screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, was revealed to have signed on, and in 2013 another writer was brought onto the project, comic book movie writer Michael Green.

Blade Runner was not overly successful with critics or the box office when it came out in 1982. Based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, it has become a cult hit and has been a known reference for other directors of science fiction movies. Star Harrison Ford played a futuristic character named Deckard who works to rid Los Angeles of an android outlaw (called replicant) invasion.

Scott released a director’s cut in 1992 that removed the studio-mandated voiceover by Ford and changed the ending. The director’s cut earned far more critical praise than the original.

In the interview with Variety, which was conducted to promote Scott’s latest film, Exodus: Gods and Kings, Scott reveals the sequel should start filming next year. He will not serve as director but instead produce the film. He also confirmed Ford was reprising his role but would not have as large an onscreen presence within the sequel.

“We…came up with a pretty strong three-act storyline,” Scott was quoted as saying. “It all makes sense in terms of how it relates to the first one. Harrison is very much part of this one, but really it’s about finding him; he comes in in the third act.”