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) "Dust to Dust", an 8-issue comic book limited series serving as a prequel to the events of both "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (1968), "Blade Runner" (1982) and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (2010). The series was written by Chris Roberson and drawn by Robert Adler. detailing the days after World War Terminus. The series was marketed with a sneak peek of an eight-page digital preview which was released on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. A replicant is a fictional bioengineered or biorobotic android in the "Blade Runner" franchise. Virtually identical to adult humans, replicants typically have superior