Themes in Blade Runner had a little reservation about that. I think he really wanted to have it both ways." Scott suggests that Ford may have since changed his view, although "Blade Runner 2049" director Denis Villeneuve claimed that Ford and Scott argue about the issue to this day. Other people involved in the movie's production who have expressed the view that Deckard is human include: David Snyder (art director), M. Emmet Walsh (who portrayed Bryant) and Rutger Hauer (who portrayed Roy Batty). Ridley Scott stated in several interviews that he considers Deckard to be a replicant. Syd Mead, the film's visual futurist, agrees
Blade Runner (a movie) Scott's 1982 science fiction film, "Blade Runner". The plot of that film was based on Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and not the Nourse and Burroughs source material, although the film does incorporate the term "blade runner," though with a different meaning than in the novel. Blade Runner (a movie) Blade Runner (a movie) is a science fiction novella by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1979. The novella began as a story treatment for a proposed film adaptation of Alan E. Nourse's novel "The Bladerunner". A later edition published in the 1980s