Blade Runner Blade Runner Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples, and starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. It is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968). The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. When a fugitive group of replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick
Blade Runner (franchise) sketches. A second edition of "Future Noir" was published in 2007. To promote the then-upcoming "Blade Runner 2049", "Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition: The Making of Blade Runner" was re-released on September 13, 2017. "Blade Runner: The Inside Story" by Don Shay. A behind-the-scenes guide to the film by Tanya Lapointe. "BFI Modern Classics: Blade Runner" by Scott Bukatman. "Blade Runner: New York Film Notes" by Nick Lacey. "Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner" by Judith B. Kerman. "Blade Runner: Cultographies" by Matt Hills "The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science-Fiction Classic", edited by