When "The Godfather Part III" was released in 1990, lovers of the Corleone chronicles simultaneously rushed to kiss and kill it, such was the inculcation of "Godfather I" and "Godfather II" in the series' fans.

The release on Monday of the new trailer for "Blade Runner 2049" shows at least the makers appreciate the stakes involved in sequelling 1982's "Blade Runner," which has bred its own cult.

Based on the 2 minute, 32 second trailer:

Atmosphere, post-apocalyptic and otherwise? Check.

Cool but inscrutable shots such as odd statues in background scenery? Check.

Spaceships hovering and zooming? Check. (Including one that appears to blast inside a building in a pursuit).

Lines you'll remember and repeat to your fellow "Blade Runner" cultists? Maybe. Among them:

"I have the lock and he has the key."

"You do not know what pain is yet. You will learn."

Harrison Ford's craggy worried face emerging from shadows perched behind a gun that he's aiming? Check.

"Blade Runner 2049" is scheduled for a U.S. premiere Oct. 6.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve, the movie stars Ryan Gosling as a gunslinger searching for Ford's Rick Deckard who in the original movie was a special agent called a Blade Runner. Blade Runners are commissioned to find and kill androids known as replicants.

"Blade Runner" was based on a 1968 science fiction novel by Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) called "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

Stories and books by Dick, known to fans as PKD, have led to movies such as "Total Recall," "Minority Report," "A Scanner Darkly," "The Adjustment Bureau" and "Paycheck" and a TV series on Amazon "The Man In The High Castle."

Alcon Entertainment of Los Angeles, California is producing the sequel and owns the "Blade Runner" franchise rights, Kelsey Donofrio of the Angellotti Company of Studio City, California has said.

"Blade Runner 2049" also features Jared Leto, Robin Wright and Dave Bautista, along with Ridley Scott, who directed "Blade Runner," executive producing.

Also in this Philip K. Dick roundup:

Actors starring in the anthalogy television series "Electric Dreams" that will be based on stories by Dick include Steve Buscemi, Julia Davis, Anna Paquin, Terrence Howard, Timothy Spall, Greg Kinnear, Bryan Cranston (who is producing) Richard Madden and Lara Pulver (Irene Adler in "Sherlock"). "Electric Dreams" will be broadcast later this year on Amazon,

How could he not be? Dick was among authors referenced in a discussion among sci-fi writers Jeff VanderMeer, Omar El Akkad and Lidia Yuknavitch in a talk

This was just fun to look at: cover art for Italian versions of Dick's novels and stories. Thanks to

Roundtable again, this time from Sept. 9, 2013, with

Dick while alive was unable to achieve a kipple's worth of the fame and success he has achieved since his death,

Speaking of movie lines, this one from "Blade Runner" -- "It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?" -- was included in a post on the

Also from Pulp Librarian, for our Polish fans, a

Lastly, Dick merits a mention in a

Here is this installment's randomly selected quote from "The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick":

"The tyranny is gone, I think. Last year powerful spirits of the ionosphere, even perhaps from as far as away as the sun's corona, were dispatched to come here to intervene. They did so. They threw it down in ruins. (Nixon is now a classic ruin.) Those whom they seized upon for their good work (I am one) saw for a time the universe -- or anyhow whatever part caught their attention -- as it is. It is a vast cube, into which time moves in the form of pattern: not spatial (it acquires space only when it enters the cube) but dynamic and bubbly; it is alive." (p. 129)