Blade Runner (franchise) Will Brooker. "Film Architecture: From Metropolis to Blade Runner" by Dietrich Neumann. "All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners" by Rutger Hauer. "All Those Moments: Stories of Heroes, Villains, Replicants, and Blade Runners" by Michael Deeley, co-written with Matthew Field. Philip K. Dick refused a $400,000 offer to write a "Blade Runner" novelization, saying: "[I was] told the cheapo novelization would have to appeal to the twelve-year-old audience" and it "would have probably been disastrous to me artistically". He added, "That insistence on my part of bringing out the original novel and not doing the novelization
Versions of Blade Runner is not a replicant, and declaring "Blade Runner: Where Love Could Be the Deadliest Sin". In this version, the initial text crawl at the start of the movie explaining what a replicant is "Early in the 21st Century..." is read by an anonymous announcer (not Harrison Ford). The actual text of the opening text crawl is different from the 1982 US theatrical release: "Early in the 21st Century, robots known as Replicants were created as off-world slave labor. Identical to humans [sic], Replicants were superior in strength and agility, and at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who