On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
15/07/2000
1h



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
Self - Presenter


Brian Aldiss
Self
Michael Arick
Self


Joanna Cassidy
Self
Michael Deeley
Self
David Dryer
Self


Hampton Fancher
Self
Katherine Haber
Self


Daryl Hannah
Self


Rutger Hauer
Self


James Hong
Self


Syd Mead
Self
Lawrence G. Paull
Self


David Webb Peoples
Self


Terry Rawlings
Self
Paul Sammon
Self


William Sanderson
Self


Ridley Scott
Self


David L. Snyder
Self


Douglas Trumbull
Self


Joe Turkel
Self


M. Emmet Walsh
Self


Bud Yorkin
Self
Richard Yuricich
Self
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