On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' backdrop
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Trailer
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
7.2
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0h 52m
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2000
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Released
Overview
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.

Cast
Mark Kermode poster
Mark Kermode
Self - Presenter
Brian Aldiss poster
Brian Aldiss
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Michael Arick poster
Michael Arick
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Joanna Cassidy poster
Joanna Cassidy
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Michael Deeley poster
Michael Deeley
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David Dryer poster
David Dryer
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Hampton Fancher poster
Hampton Fancher
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Katherine Haber poster
Katherine Haber
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Daryl Hannah poster
Daryl Hannah
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Rutger Hauer poster
Rutger Hauer
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James Hong poster
James Hong
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Syd Mead poster
Syd Mead
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Lawrence G. Paull poster
Lawrence G. Paull
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David Webb Peoples poster
David Webb Peoples
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Terry Rawlings poster
Terry Rawlings
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Paul Sammon poster
Paul Sammon
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William Sanderson poster
William Sanderson
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Ridley Scott poster
Ridley Scott
Self
David L. Snyder poster
David L. Snyder
Self
Douglas Trumbull poster
Douglas Trumbull
Self

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