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) films exploring incidents that occurred between the events of "Blade Runner" and "Blade Runner 2049". The first short film released in the lead up to "Blade Runner 2049", "2036: Nexus Dawn", is directed by Luke Scott, who had previously developed short films connecting the events of Ridley Scott films "Prometheus" and "". The film stars Jared Leto as Niander Wallace and Benedict Wong as Lawmaker, following him as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to the lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted. A second film, "2048: Nowhere to Run", also directed by Scott, follows Nexus-8