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Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) during the scene in the Final Cut of Blade Runner "Tears in rain" is a 42-word monologue, consisting of the last words of character Roy Batty (portrayed by Rutger Hauer) in the 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. Written by David Peoples and altered by Hauer, [1] [2] [3] the monologue is frequently quoted. [4]
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?
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 2049 premiered on October 3, 2017, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, although following the 2017 Las Vegas Strip shooting, the red carpet events were canceled prior to the screening. [91] It was the opening feature at the Festival du nouveau cinéma in Montreal the following day. [92]
After Blade Runner, Hauer appeared in the 1987 British TV film Escape from Sobibor, for which he won a Golden Globe, as well as films like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Sin City.He also had roles ...
M. Emmet Walsh, a veteran character actor who appeared in more than 150 films including “Blade Runner,” “Blood Simple” and “Knives Out” and played Dermot Mulroney’s dad in “My Best ...
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 ...
The term comes not from the Philip K. Dick novel but rather a 1979 novella by William S. Burroughs, called Blade Runner (a movie), itself an adaptation of a Burroughs screenplay of the 1974 novel The Bladerunner by Alan E. Nourse. Scott optioned the title from Burroughs after it was suggested by screenwriter Hampton Fancher. [5]