Blade Runner universe. A bonus feature on the Blu-ray for "Prometheus", the 2012 film by Scott set in the "Alien" and "Predator" universe, states that Eldon Tyrell, CEO of the "Blade Runner" Tyrell Corporation, was the mentor of Guy Pearce's character Peter Weyland. 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
Blade Runner (franchise) Dick, began developing a series of "Blade Runner" novels that would serve as a continuation of both the film "Blade Runner", and the novel upon which it was based, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?". The first of these novels, "Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human", was published on October 1, 1995. The novel was set several months after the events of "Blade Runner", following Deckard living in an isolated shack outside of Los Angeles, with Rachael with him in a Tyrell transport container, intended to slow down the replicant aging process. Deckard is called in by the human