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On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

Movie
2000
52m
English
Documentary, TV Movie
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.
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7.3
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60

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Directed By: Andrew Abbott
Written By: Mark Kermode

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drqshadow says...
4 years ago
Having read Paul Sammon's Future Noir from cover to cover, I didn't find a lot of fresh insight in this semi-modern rumination on Ridley Scott's rainy mid-‘80s sci-fi portrait. Having said that, it's nice to hear the production’s variety of words and stories straight from the horse's mouth, rather than coldly reprinted, oral history style, on a long page. Having shunned the project since almost the moment it was released, it's no surprise to see Harrison Ford and Sean Young conspicuously absent from the list of interviewees, though an appearance from either would have made this a much more interesting piece. The few concept sketches and effect demos this documentary’s producers were able to dig up are extremely interesting, but they're too few and far between to hold the interest of non-hardcores.
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