A significant sci-fi film that holds a mirror up to humanity and forces us to ask some uncomfortable questions about ourselves
Screenplay by Hampton Fancher, David Peoples
Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Produced by: Michael Deeley
Cinematography: Jordan Cronenweth
Edited by Terry Rawlings
Marsha Nakashima
Music byVangelis
Production companies: The Ladd Company, Shaw Brothers Blade Runner Partnership
Distributed by Warner Bros. (Worldwide), Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong)
Running time: 117 minutes
Language: English
Budget: $30 million
Box office: $41.8 million
Cast
Harrison Ford as Rick DeckardRutger Hauer as Roy Batty
Sean Young as Rachael
Edward James Olmos as Gaff
M. Emmet Walsh as Bryant
Daryl Hannah as Pris
William Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian
Brion James as Leon Kowalski
Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell
Joanna Cassidy as Zhora Salome
James Hong as Hannibal Chew
Morgan Paull as Dave Holden
Hy Pyke as Taffey Lewis
Trailer
What is set down here does not involve a future in which machines have risen up to take over and subjugate humanity. Nor is it a future in which governments have specifically conspired to use technology to achieve world domination. Neither are there cyborgs being sent back into the past in order to effect change in the future.
The events that are about to unfold here are set in a dystopian future in Los Angeles in the year 2019. You might think of it as one possible future outcome out of an infinite number of possible future outcomes within a string theory multiverse. This particular future is the result of a certain set of decisions that had been made resulting in the creation of synthetic humans known as ‘replicants’ that were bio-engineered by the all-powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. Unexpectedly, a group of advanced replicants committed the unthinkable before escaping back to Earth. It was then up to a jaded and burnt-out former cop – a blade runner - Rick Deckard to hunt them down and ‘retire’ them.
Now let’s begin this tale of a possible future by providing a bit of context which should be scrolling on the screens of your devices…...now:
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