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 the same year. From 1995 to 2000, three novels serving as sequels to both "Blade Runner" and the original novel were written by K. W. Jeter, a friend of Dick's. A film sequel to "Blade Runner", "Blade Runner 2049", was released in 2017. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of "Blade Runner" in 2012, a short film was released, and in the lead up to the release of "Blade Runner 2049", several more short films detailing events that occurred between 2019 and 2049 were released. Interest in adapting Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" developed shortly