![]() ![]() Who knows what Dick would have thought about the film version that actually played in theaters, though. ![]() TEST AUDIENCES HATED IT SO MUCH THAT A(N INFAMOUS) VOICEOVER WAS ADDED. It taught me things about writing that I didn’t know.” 6. I was amazed that Peoples could get some of those scenes to work. reinforce each other, so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy the movie and someone who started with the movie would enjoy the novel. The whole thing had simply been rejuvenated in a very fundamental way. He loathed Hampton Fancher’s original draft, saying he was “angry and disgusted” at the way it “cleaned my book up of all the subtleties and of the meaning … It had become a fight between androids and a bounty hunter.” A revised screenplay by David Webb Peoples brought Dick around: “I couldn’t believe what I was reading!. DICK HATED THE SCRIPT (AT FIRST).ĭick passed away before the film was completed, but he kept up with the script as it went through various permutations. Dick later, and he said, ‘I understand you couldn’t read the book.’ And I said, ‘You know you’re so dense, mate, by page 32, there’s about 17 storylines.’” 5. (It’s one of over a dozen movies based on his works.) But Scott didn’t read the book before making the movie: “I actually couldn’t get into it. RIDLEY SCOTT DIDN’T READ THE BOOK ON WHICH IT’S BASED.īlade Runner is (loosely) based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by legendary sci-fi author Philip K. “Frankly,” Scott later said, “I think it might have been something as simple as money.” 4. Hoffman, Scott, Fancher, producer Michael Deeley, and production executive Katherine Haber worked on the film for months, workshopping Deckard’s character and shifting the script in a more “socially conscious” (Scott’s words) direction until Hoffman abruptly dropped out in October of 1980. “I figured, unlikely though he may be in terms of his physical size as a sci-fi hero, as an actor Hoffman could do anything,” explained Scott. Ridley Scott wanted to go in a completely different direction by casting Dustin Hoffman, whom he later acknowledged didn’t really fit the type. DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALMOST PLAYED DECKARD.Īt various times during development, Blade Runner’s original screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, pictured Robert Mitchum, Christopher Walken, and Tommy Lee Jones as Rick Deckard. Anything, anything, just put it to rest.’” 3. “Ridley didn’t think that was all that important.” Still, Scott has worn his leading man down over the years: “ given up now. “I thought it was important that the audience be able to have a human representative on screen, somebody that they could have an emotional understanding of,” Ford said in 2013. While Scott’s long been clear on his interpretation of Deckard as a replicant, Ford takes the opposite viewpoint, preferring to think of his character as human. “If Gaff knew about that, is Gaff’s message to say, ‘I’ve basically read your file, mate.’” He knows about Deckard’s private daydreams because those daydreams were implanted in his (bionic) brain. “The unicorn that’s used in Deckard’s daydream tells me that Deckard wouldn’t normally talk about such a thing to anyone,” Scott explained to WIRED in 2007. In the director’s cut (not the original theatrical version), there’s a short scene where Deckard daydreams about a unicorn later, near the end of the film, Gaff (Edward James Olmos) leaves an origami unicorn for Deckard to find. It may be a major point of contention with sci-fi fans, but to director Ridley Scott the answer is clear: Yes, Blade Runner Rick Deckard is a replicant. RIDLEY SCOTT SAYS RICK DECKARD IS DEFINITELY A REPLICANT. Though Ridley Scott's original 1982 film may be getting a modern update with Blade Runner 2049, we're taking a look behind the scenes of one of the most iconic sci-fi movies of all time. Sloan Foundation Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology.Īcademy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.All of Roy Batty’s precious moments may be lost in time, like tears in rain, but these Blade Runner facts aren’t going anywhere. This program is made possible by the Alfred P. DCP.Īll film screenings in the Branch Selects series are available here. CAST: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Joanna Cassidy. WRITTEN BY: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples. The film was nominated for Art Direction and for its Visual Effects, which are as seamlessly convincing as the day it premiered.ĭIRECTOR: Ridley Scott. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? which has become a classic in the forty years since its release. Snyder, and Linda DeScenna helped create one of cinema’s most indelible and imaginative visualizations of the city of the future (in this case, the Los Angeles of 2019) in this science-fiction noir, directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from the Philip K. Selected by the Production Design Branch. ![]()
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