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 fit the studio's marketing as an action/adventure movie. Others acclaimed its complexity and predicted it would stand the test of time. Negative criticism in the United States cited its slow pace. Sheila Benson from the "Los Angeles Times" called it "Blade Crawler", and Pat Berman in "The State" and "Columbia Record" described it as "science fiction pornography". Pauline Kael praised "Blade Runner" as worthy of a place in film history for its distinctive sci-fi vision, yet criticized the film's lack of development in "human terms". Academics began writing analyses of the film almost as soon as it was released, and