

Bryant wants Deckard to retire Leon and three other Nexus-6 replicants: Roy Batty, Zhora, and Pris.īryant has Deckard meet with the CEO of the company that creates the replicants, Eldon Tyrell, so he can administer the test on a Nexus-6 to see if it works. The test subject, Leon, shoots Holden on the second question.

The two watch a video of a blade runner named Holden administering the Voight-Kampff test, which is designed to distinguish replicants from humans based on their emotional responses to questions. Deckard begins to leave, but Bryant ambiguously threatens him and Deckard stays. Deckard, whose job as a "blade runner" was to track down bioengineered humanoids known as replicants and terminally "retire" them, is informed that four replicants are on Earth illegally. In 2019 Los Angeles, former police officer Rick Deckard is detained by Officer Gaff, who likes to make origami figures, and is brought to his former supervisor, Bryant. See the Versions of Blade Runner article for discussion of version-specific plot elements.

Note: Since there are several versions of Blade Runner, this summary excludes version-specific events.
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The anime series Blade Runner: Black Lotus was released in 2021. A sequel, directed by Denis Villeneuve and titled Blade Runner 2049, was released in October 2017 alongside a trilogy of short films covering the thirty-year span between the two films' settings. The film is the first of the franchise of the same name.

This is the only version over which Scott retained artistic control. In 2007, Warner Bros. released The Final Cut, a 25th-anniversary digitally remastered version. This, in conjunction with the film's popularity as a video rental, made it one of the earliest movies to be released on DVD. A director's cut was released in 1992 after a strong response to test screenings of a workprint. Seven different versions of Blade Runner exist as a result of controversial changes requested by studio executives. National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the U.S. Dick to the attention of Hollywood, and several of his works later became films such as Total Recall (1990), Minority Report (2002), and A Scanner Darkly (2006). The film has influenced many science fiction films, video games, anime, and television series. The film's soundtrack, composed by Vangelis, was nominated in 1982 for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe as best original score. Hailed for its production design depicting a high-tech but decaying future, Blade Runner is often regarded as both a leading example of neo-noir cinema as well as a foundational work of the cyberpunk genre. It later became a cult film, and has since come to be regarded as one of the all-time best science fiction films. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.īlade Runner initially underperformed in North American theaters and polarized critics some praised its thematic complexity and visuals, while others critiqued its slow pacing and lack of action. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples.
