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) in 1982, during production of "Blade Runner". In 1998, while promoting "Soldier" (then recently released), Peoples then revealed that he had written "Soldier" as a ""spin-off sidequel-spiritual successor"" to "Blade Runner", seeing both films as existing in the same fictional universe. The film obliquely refers to various elements of stories written by Philip K. Dick, and film adaptations thereof. Connections to "Blade Runner" in the film are as follows: The television film "Total Recall 2070" was initially planned as a spin-off of the film "Total Recall", and would eventually be transformed into a hybrid of "Total Recall" and "Blade Runner".