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) films exploring incidents that occurred between the events of "Blade Runner" and "Blade Runner 2049". The first short film released in the lead up to "Blade Runner 2049", "2036: Nexus Dawn", is directed by Luke Scott, who had previously developed short films connecting the events of Ridley Scott films "Prometheus" and "". The film stars Jared Leto as Niander Wallace and Benedict Wong as Lawmaker, following him as he presents a new Nexus-9 replicant to the lawmakers in an attempt to have a prohibition on replicants lifted. A second film, "2048: Nowhere to Run", also directed by Scott, follows Nexus-8