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) or events of the 1982 film. On February 7, 2010, it was announced that production on "Purefold" had ceased, due to funding problems. The "Blade Runner" soundtrack by Vangelis is a dark melodic combination of classic composition and futuristic synthesizers which mirrors the film-noir retro-future envisioned by Ridley Scott. Vangelis, fresh from his Academy Award-winning score for "Chariots of Fire", composed and performed the music on his synthesizers. He also made use of various chimes and the vocals of collaborator Demis Roussos. Another memorable sound is the haunting tenor sax solo "Love Theme" by British saxophonist Dick Morrissey, who performed