DICK’S DAUGHTER): My dad wrote that novel when my parents were living in the East Bay. A friend had told me to read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
I had three notions, actually: One was Charles Bukowski, one was William S. I was tired of being under the turf for so long, and I thought science fiction was the coming thing. HAMPTON FANCHER (SCREENWRITER): In 1975, I got some money and I thought I might try to option something with the notion of producing and getting in the front door. In which an ex-flamenco dancer comes into a sum of money and decides to make it big by optioning an obscure sci-fi novel Misunderstood on its release yet ahead of its time, Blade Runner today stands alongside Sunset Boulevard and Chinatown as one of the great films set in Los Angeles. This summer will see a definitive 25th-anniversary multidisc release of the film from Warner Bros. In 1991, a version without the much-maligned voice-over was released at a San Francisco theater and at the Nuart house records were broken at both venues. Its dark story line helped spawn a new genre, cyberpunk, and Dick’s novels would eventually be adapted into movies like Total Recall and Minority Report. Its look, conceived by Scott and designer Syd Mead, began showing up in movies like Brazil and Beverly Hills Cop. Yet as time passed, the film’s influence grew. When it finally opened on June 25, Blade Runner proved to be both a commercial and a critical bomb. Essentially powerless, Scott watched as a clunky voiceover and a happy ending were tacked onto his brooding masterpiece. The first writer quit the production lost its financing weeks before filming began Dick died midway the director and actors feuded as the crew revolted against Scott and Scott and Deeley were ultimately fired by two of the movie’s financiers, Bud Yorkin and Jerry Perenchio. No film production is a breeze, but in the annals of filmmaking, Blade Runner stands out as one of the most traumatic shoots. Scott’s previous film was the blockbuster Alien, and his new producer, Michael Deeley, had just won an Oscar for The Deer Hunter.
As Deckard tracks the androids through a broken, chaotic city, both he and the film’s audience experience a creeping realization: Could the bounty hunter himself be a replicant?īlade Runner was based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by the reclusive science-fiction author Philip K. Harrison Ford, just off Raiders of the Lost Ark, played Deckard, a bounty hunter chasing down a group of synthetic humans called “replicants” Led by Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty and rounded out by Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, and Brion James, the quartet are desperate to find a cure for the imminent end of their built-in four-year life spans. Here was the hellish noir of the city’s past pushed four decades into the future.
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The film’s stunning opening shot of a dystopian wasteland-Los Angeles in 2019-established the bleak, haunting tone for the movie that followed. No one had seen anything like director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner when it appeared in 1982. The article was originally published in Los Angeles in February 2007.
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