{"id":506,"date":"2007-09-18T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T14:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-24T13:33:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T05:33:09","slug":"philip-k-dick-and-the-blade-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/506\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip K Dick and The Blade Runner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I remember Blade Runner<\/a> when it was launch. I was in Tokyo and at the same was E.T.<\/a><\/p>\n

Like everybody’s memory of Blade Runner<\/a>, the film was basically pummeled by E.T. (the other science fiction film at the time). Although I would not watch the film until about 4 years later, I did know that a lot was expected of it.<\/p>\n

It had Harrison Ford<\/a> (hot from Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark). Also starring were Daryl Hannah<\/a> and Rutger Hauer<\/a>. The film was directed by Ridley Scott<\/a> (hot from the ground breaking sci-fi horror Alien, and soon to make many other films and even the Apple Computer 1984 advert<\/a>). It was launched at a time when sci-fi was cool.<\/p>\n

Sadly, due to a variety of reasons the film bombed – only to be resurrected and become one of, if not THE, landmark sci-fi film of all time. The film will soon be relaunched as the “Final Cut” – ie the preferred cut as intended by Ridley Scott.<\/p>\n

The film also followed (or paved) a similar fate for the author (Philip K Dick<\/a>) on whose book (“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”) the film was based. Philip K Dick died before the film launch… but his digital age \/ cyber punk books became material for many other sci-fi films such as Total Recall, Paycheck, Minority Report<\/a>, Next and a few others.<\/p>\n

Now his children are getting more involved in the future films of Philip K Dick in order to ensure the quality of his work to be properly brought to life on the silver screen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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