In a 2017 job interview with Consequence of Sound, director Denis Villeneuve disclosed his intention to forged Bowie in Blade Runner 2049 as the direct villain, Niander Wallace, but when news broke of Bowie's death in January of the exact yr, Villeneuve was pressured to search for talent with equivalent "rock star" features. An EP, No Plan, was launched on 8 January 2017, which would have been Bowie's seventieth birthday.