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 2049 confirmed that he was no longer involved and was contractually forbidden from commenting. The musical cue during the final scene is a call back to the "Time to die" scene from "Blade Runner", a reference to the death of Roy Batty. "Blade Runner 2049" premiered on October 3, 2017 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, although following the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting, the red carpet events were cancelled prior to the screening. It was the opening feature at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal the following day. It also was premiered in Switzerland at the Zurich Film