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A new audiobook version was released in 2007 by Random House Audio to coincide with the release of Blade Runner: The Final Cut. This version, read by Scott Brick, is unabridged and runs approximately 9.5 hours over eight CDs. This version is a tie-in, using the Blade Runner: The Final Cut film poster and Blade Runner title. [6]
Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. [7] [8] Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Bladerunner (also published as The Blade Runner) is a 1974 science fiction novel by Alan E. Nourse, about underground medical services and smuggling.It was the source for the title, but no major plot elements, of the 1982 film Blade Runner, adapted from the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, [1] though elements of the Nourse novel recur in a pair of 2002 films ...
Blade Runner has influenced adventure games such as the 2012 graphical text adventure Cypher, [175] Rise of the Dragon, [176] [177] Snatcher, [177] [178] the Tex Murphy series, [179] Beneath a Steel Sky, [180] Flashback: The Quest for Identity, [177] Bubblegum Crisis (and its original anime films), [181] [182] the role-playing game Shadowrun ...
Despite the initial appearance and marketing of an action film, Blade Runner operates on an unusually rich number of dramatic levels. As with much of the cyberpunk genre, it owes a large debt to film noir, containing and exploring such conventions as the femme fatale, a Chandleresque first-person narration in the Theatrical Version, the questionable moral outlook of the hero—extended here to ...
In the 2007 documentary Dangerous Days: The Making of Blade Runner, there is a reference to director Ridley Scott presenting an eighth version, a nearly four-hour-long "early cut", that was shown only to studio personnel. The following is a timeline of these various versions.
The book's plot draws from other material related to Blade Runner in a number of ways: . Deckard, Pris, Sebastian, Leon, Batty, and Holden all appeared in Blade Runner.; Many of the parts of the "conspiracy" are based on errors or plot holes identified by fans of the original movie, such as Leon's ability to bring a gun into the Tyrell building, or the reference to the sixth replicant.
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human, Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night, and Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon (1995–2000) by K. W. Jeter [17] The Diamond Age (1996) by Neal Stephenson [18] Holy Fire (1996) by Bruce Sterling [citation needed] Night Sky Mine (1997) by Melissa Scott [19] Noir (1998) by K. W. Jeter; Tea from an Empty Cup (1998) by Pat ...