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
Blade Runner (franchise) Ford's character would only appear in "the third act" of the sequel. On February 26, 2015, the sequel was confirmed, with Denis Villeneuve as its director. Ford was confirmed to be returning as Deckard; so too Hampton Fancher, one of the two writers of the original film. The film was expected to enter production in mid-2016. "Blade Runner", the first film in the franchise, is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film, serving as a loose adaptation of the Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". The film is set in a dystopian Los Angeles of 2019,