William Blake in popular culture all cited Blake as one of their major inspirations. Comic designer William Blake Everett claims to be descended from Blake. In his film "Mean Streets" (1973), Martin Scorsese refers to Blake's poem "The Tyger" when a young pet tiger makes Harvey Keitel and Robert De Niro take refuge atop a couch, paralleling the grit and innocence of life in the city. A variation on a verse from Blake's "America a Prophecy" appears in Ridley Scott's science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982), spoken by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer). This has been interpreted as a way of linking Batty to Blake's mythic
Blade Runner (franchise) sketches. A second edition of "Future Noir" was published in 2007. To promote the then-upcoming "Blade Runner 2049", "Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition: The Making of Blade Runner" was re-released on September 13, 2017. "Blade Runner: The Inside Story" by Don Shay. A behind-the-scenes guide to the film by Tanya Lapointe. "BFI Modern Classics: Blade Runner" by Scott Bukatman. "Blade Runner: New York Film Notes" by Nick Lacey. "Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner" by Judith B. Kerman. "Blade Runner: Cultographies" by Matt Hills "The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science-Fiction Classic", edited by