On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

July. 15,2000      
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Mark Kermode as  Self - Presenter
Brian Aldiss as  Self
Joanna Cassidy as  Self
Hampton Fancher as  Self
Daryl Hannah as  Self
Rutger Hauer as  Self
James Hong as  Self
David Webb Peoples as  Self
Terry Rawlings as  Self
William Sanderson as  Self

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Reviews

TinsHeadline
2000/07/15

Touches You

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Greenes
2000/07/16

Please don't spend money on this.

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GrimPrecise
2000/07/17

I'll tell you why so serious

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Calum Hutton
2000/07/18

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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