Blade Runner Tommy Lee Jones, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Al Pacino, and Burt Reynolds. One role that was not difficult to cast was Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty, the violent yet thoughtful leader of the replicants. Scott cast Hauer without having met him, based solely on Hauer's performances in Paul Verhoeven's movies Scott had seen ("Katie Tippel", "Soldier of Orange", and "Turkish Delight"). Hauer's portrayal of Batty was regarded by Philip K. Dick as "the perfect Batty – cold, Aryan, flawless". Of the many films Hauer has made, "Blade Runner" is his favorite. As he explained in a live chat in 2001, ""Blade Runner"
Blade Runner (franchise) sketches. A second edition of "Future Noir" was published in 2007. To promote the then-upcoming "Blade Runner 2049", "Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition: The Making of Blade Runner" was re-released on September 13, 2017. "Blade Runner: The Inside Story" by Don Shay. A behind-the-scenes guide to the film by Tanya Lapointe. "BFI Modern Classics: Blade Runner" by Scott Bukatman. "Blade Runner: New York Film Notes" by Nick Lacey. "Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner" by Judith B. Kerman. "Blade Runner: Cultographies" by Matt Hills "The Blade Runner Experience: The Legacy of a Science-Fiction Classic", edited by