Blade Runner Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, and Burt Reynolds. One role that was not difficult to cast was Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, the violent yet thoughtful leader of the replicants. Scott cast Hauer without having met him, based solely on Hauer's performances in Paul Verhoeven's movies Scott had seen ("Katie Tippel", "Soldier of Orange", and "Turkish Delight"). Hauer's portrayal of Batty was regarded by Philip K. Dick as "the perfect Batty – cold, Aryan, flawless". Of the many films Hauer has made, "Blade Runner" is his favorite. As he explained in a live chat in 2001, ""Blade Runner"
Blade Runner (franchise) in the same year. From 1995 to 2000, three novels serving as sequels to both "Blade Runner" and the original novel were written by K. W. Jeter, a friend of Dick's. A film sequel to "Blade Runner", "Blade Runner 2049", was released in 2017. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Blade Runner" in 2012, a short film was released, and in the lead up to the release of "Blade Runner 2049", several more short films detailing events that occurred between 2019 and 2049 were released. Interest in adapting Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" developed shortly