On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.
Release Date
July 15, 2000Runtime
52 minDirected by
Andrew AbbottWritten by
Mark KermodeLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
Mark Kermode
Self - PresenterBrian Aldiss
SelfJoanna Cassidy
SelfHampton Fancher
SelfDaryl Hannah
SelfRutger Hauer
SelfJames Hong
SelfDavid Webb Peoples
SelfTerry Rawlings
SelfWilliam Sanderson
SelfRidley Scott
SelfDavid L. Snyder
SelfDouglas Trumbull
SelfJoe Turkel
SelfM. Emmet Walsh
SelfBud Yorkin
SelfPhilip K. Dick
Self (archive footage)Images
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