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           In the year 2019, 'replicants' are artificially-manufactured humanoids, and because of an off-Earth revolt, they have been declared illegal. When a fellow government agent ('blade runner') is killed in Los Angeles, agent Deckard is called out of retirement and under vague threats is told to find four escaped Nexus-6 replicants – a combat model (Roy), a nuclear fuel loader (Leon), a female trained assassin (Zhora), and a female 'basic pleasure model' (Pris). The Nexus-6 model has a four-year lifespan to ensure they do not develop emotions and a desire for independence. Deckard and agent Gaff visit the Tyrell Corporation and are assured that the Voight-Kampff test (which proves someone is/is not a replicant) works on the new models; while there, they meet Tyrell's sexy secretary (Rachael), an experimental replicant who believes herself to be human.
           Deckard and Gaff search the dead agent's apartment. Roy and Leon meet with Sebastian, who deals in replicant animals, as they track their way to 'meeting their maker' (Tyrell), made extra urgent by onset of symptoms of Roy's impending death; Pris also finds Sebastian. Rachael visits Deckard at his apartment to prove to him her human-ness, but Deckard coldly rejects her and she leaves in tears. Deckard then follows a clue and locates Zhora at a strip club; they fight, she flees, and Deckard chases her thru the teeming, rain-drenched streets of a future Los Angeles until he corners and 'retires' (kills) her. Deckard is ordered to add Rachael to his list of retirements, because she has disappeared from Tyrell Corp. headquarters. Deckard spots Rachael in a crowd and follows her, and is attacked and beaten by Leon; Rachael saves Deckard by shooting Leon, and she helps Deckard to his apartment, where they have sex (or is it 'make love?').
           Roy arrives at Sebastian's apartment, tells Prin that Leon and Zhora are dead, and pressures Sebastian into taking him to Tyrell. Tyrell refuses to extend Roy's life, saying that he has no such power; Roy grabs Tyrell's head, kisses him, and then crushes his skull; Sebastian runs toward the elevator, but Roy exits the building alone. Deckard arrives at Sebastian's apartment and is ambushed by Pris, but manages to shoot her, just as Roy returns. Roy is horrified, breaks thru a wall and breaks two of Deckard's fingers, then turns Deckard loose for a cat-and-mouse game within the Bradbury Building. But Roy's end-of-lifespan symptoms escalate as he chases Deckard to the roof; Deckard tries to leap acroos to another building, but doesntt quite make it, and hangs from a wet iron beam in the pouring rain. Roy easily leaps over and saves Deckard, but then crumples and delivers a short soliloquy and dies. Gaff shows up and makes a cryptic remark about Racheal; upon returning to his apartment, Deckard is relieved to find Rachael there alive; the various versions end with either Deckard & Rachael leaving the apartment building together or driving together across a pastoral landscape.

History of The Film/s            Philip K. Dick [1928-82] wrote "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", a 1968 novel about Rick Deckard, a bounty hunter who chases down rogue androids, and John Isidore, a below-average human who befriends renegade androids. Alan E. Nourse [1928-92] wrote "The Bladerunner", a 1974 novel about a teenager who delivers black market medical supplies to underground physicians and surgeons. Beat poet Wm. S. Burroughs was paid to write a treatment (not screenplay) adaptation of Nourse's book; that work was published in 1979; a film has not yet been made.
           The makers of "Blade Runner" paid Burroughs & Nourse for use of the term as the title of their adaptation of Dick's "Androids" novel. Location filming included Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis Brown House in Hollywood, California, and the 1893 iron-and-glass Bradbury Building and the 1918 Million Dollar Theater in Downtown Los Angerles.
           The movie was released in a 117-minute version in June 1982, to much critical debate, and lousy box office sales. But the film developed a 'cult' following on the art house and midnight movies circuits, and finally gained stature as an important film, such as early inclusion (1993) in the United States National Film Registry of the Library of Congress.
           "Blade Runner" was one of the first films released on DVD, unfortunately with mediocre video & audio quality. Seven versions of the film have been released, for various markets, including a rushed 112-minute Director's Cut in 1992. Warner Bros. released a 'digitally remastered definitive Final Cut' 25th Anniversary Edition in 2007 in select theaters and on DVD & Blu-ray.

Announced March 2011: The world of "Blade Runner" may soon return to the big screen. Alcon Entertainment [est. 1997] is in final negotiations to acquire the film, television & ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic 1982 cult classic; the deal is with Bud Yorkin [1926-2015], exec producer on the original movie, who will serve as a producer on the new projects. Director Ridley Scott signed on in August 2011.
Announced April 2016: Cast & crew of "Blade Runner 2" now include director Denis Villeneuve, writers Hampton Fancher & Michael Green; actors Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista; principal photography is scheduled to begin in July.

"Blade Runner"
[Ladd Company June 1982]
Directed by Ridley Scott, from a novel by Philip K. Dick; starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young,
Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh & Daryl Hannah; music by Vangelis; won Hugo Award for Best
Dramatic Presentation, listed on National Film Registry in 1993; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME
100 Movies (10/2005); listed among A.F.I. Top Ten Scifi Films

"Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner" documentary [Warner Home Video Dec 2007]
Co-produced & directed by Charles de Lauzirika; available on 2007 DVD & Blu-ray releases above; full credits from IMDb

songs from the movie:
theme song [3:42]

love theme [3:44}

'Memory of Green' [4:34]

"Blade Runner" sequel film
Director Ridley Scott has repeatedly said that he is considering a sequel to "Blade Runner". During 2008, Travis Wright and John Glenn wrote a screenplay exploring the nature of the Off-World colonies and what happens to the Tyrell Corporation in the wake of its founder's death, but that project is on hold. As-of June 2009, Ridley Scott and brother Tony and son Luke are said to be making 5-10-minute episodes of a webcast called "Purefold", that is set in the year 2019 and 'inspired' by the world of "Blade Runner". As-of March 2011: Alcon Entertainment [est. 1997] is set to acquire the film, television & ancillary franchise rights to produce prequels and sequels to the iconic 1982 cult classic "Blade Runner"; the deal is with Bud Yorkin [1926-2015], exec producer on the original movie, who will serve as a producer on the new projects. As-of April 2016: principal photography on "Blade Runner 2" is scheduled to begin in July.

"Blade Runner 2" [Alcon Ent./Warner/Sony Oct 2017?] 1/2017

temporary poster graphic for 'Balde Runner 2'

Location filming in Hungary; other details being kept secret. • Co-produced by Ridley Scott, Bud Yorkin & Cynthia Sikes Yorkin; directed by Denis Villeneuve; written by Hampton Fancher & Michael Green; actors Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Robin Wright, Sylvia Hoeks, Dave Bautista, Ana de Armas
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available
latest info at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia
'Blade Runner 2' fansite

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	"Blade Runner, The Motion Picture: Portfolio" [1982] Edited by David Scroggy "Twelve Dazzling Full-Color Moments" Blue Dolphin Enterprises 13x12 pb [1982] out of print/rare
	"Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and Phillip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" [1991] Edited by Judith B. Kerman Bowling Green Univ Popular Press 9x6 pb [4/93] for $20.40 Bowling Green Univ Popular Press 9½x6½ hardcover [4/91] out of print/used
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	"Blade Runner: The Inside Story" [2003] by Don Shay Cinefex Magazine devoted an entire, extended issue in 1982 to the release of sci-fi masterpiece "Blade Runner", including in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and legendary designer Syd Mead. Copies of that issue were in con- stant demand by collectors, and in 2003 Titan Books brought it back into print. Titan Books 'remastered hardcover edition' [6/2003] out of print/used
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	"Blade Runner and The Films of Philip K. Dick" [2008] by Jeremy Mark Robinson Academic study that concentrates on "Blade Runner" but also looks at "Minority Report" [2002], "Total Recall" [1990 & 1999], "A Scanner Darkly" [2006], and other movies based on works of Philip K. Dick [1928-82]. Crescent Moon Publng 9x6 pb [6/2008] for $25.00
	"Blade Runner (Cultographies Series)" [2009] by Matt Hills, Media & Cultural Studies Dept., Cardiff University, Wales At first a box office & critical flop, the movie "Blade Runner" resurrected itself and went beyond mere 'cult' status, and exists today within 'classroom cult', 'meta cult', and 'design cult' conversations Wallflower Press pb [still not published? 3/2011] author's faculty homepage

	"Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human" [1995] by K.W. Jeter Bounty hunter Deckard learns that Pris, who he executed in the 'Blade Runner' movie, was a human and not a Nexus-6 replicant, thus making Deckard a murderer and a fugitive. Replicant Rachael's lifespan is soon to end, and a grieving Deckard meets her templant (original model), the neice of dead tycoon Tyrell, who offers herself as replacement. Bantam Spectra 8¼x5¾ pb [10/2000] for $19.00 Bantam Spectra mass pb [8/96] out of print/many used Victor Gollancz, Ltd. mass pb [7/96] out of print/many used Bantam Spectra 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/95] out of print/many, many used book 2 entry at Wikipedia
	"Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night" [1996] by K.W. Jeter While acting as consultant on a movie about his own life, retired bounty hunter Deckard loses his former partner to murder and quickly heads for home on Mars, where his lover Sarah, heir to the defunct Tyrell Corp., is plotting Deckard's death (out of bitterness and boredom). Agents of martyr and mad genius Tyrell's 'shadow corporation' kidnap Sarah and take her to her birth- place, a derelict starship, in search of industrial secrets. While trying to rescue Sarah, Deckard finds that a ten-year-old girl is the key to Tyrell's lost science. Bantam Spectra mass pb [10/97] out of print/used Bantam Spectra hardcover [10/96] out of print/many used book 3 entry at Wikipedia
	"Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon" [2000] by K.W. Jeter A female blade runner is asked to find Tyrell's owl, unaware that she is being filmed and events are being nudged toward a specific conclusion. She begins to wise up when she realizes that she is a dead ringer for Tyrell's niece and the 'retired' Nexus 6 replicant named Rachael. Victor Gollancz, Ltd. mass pb [12/2001] out of print/used Victor Gollancz, Ltd. 9½x6½ hardcover [2000] out of print/used book 4 entry at Wikipedia

	"The Illustrated Blade Runner" [1982] contains the complete screenplay by Hampton Fancher & David Peoples, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, Foreword by Ridley Scott Blue Dolphin Enterprises pb [1982] out of print/scarce
	"Blade Runner" screenplay & critical text [2008] by Scott Bukatman British Film Institute 7¼x5¼ pb [1/2008] for $11.66
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	"Blade Runner" soundtrack album [1994] Atlantic soundtrack CD [6/94] for $13.96 "Blade Runner" orchestral soundtrack [1990] by New American Orchestra Warner orchestral version CD [10/90] for $19.98
	"Blade Runner Trilogy: 25th Anniversary Soundtrack Albums" [2006] by Vangelis includes remastered original 1994 album; disk of all music not on original album; and a disk of music newly written for the 25th Anniversary Polydor soundtrack CD set [12/2007] 37 tracks on 3 disks for $29.98

	"Blade Runner" Video Game [1995?] from Westwood Studios game based on the book & movie Westwood Studios game for Windows on four CD-ROMs [1995?] out of prodn/used "Blade Runner Official Strategy Guide" [1997] Brady Games pb [12/97] out of print/used "Prima's Unauthorized Guide To Blade Runner" [1998] Prima Games 9¼x7½ pb [1/98] out of print/used
	"Blade Runner: Ray McCoy" [1998] from Electronic Arts Blade Runner Ray McCoy searches Los Angeles in 2019 for clues to several interwoven cases Electronic Arts game for Windows on CD-ROM [1998] for $63.94 "Ultimate Sci-Fi Series" Box Set [2000] from Electronic Arts includes "Blade Runner: Ray McCoy", "Dune 2000", and "Wing Commander: Prophecy" Electronic Arts games for Windows [6/2000] for $83.99

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