On the Edge of 'Blade Runner' (2000)
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.
Director: Andrew Abbott
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Mark Kermode as Self - Presenter |
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Brian Aldiss as Self |
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Michael Arick as Self |
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Joanna Cassidy as Self |
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Michael Deeley as Self |
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David Dryer as Self |
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Hampton Fancher as Self |
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Katherine Haber as Self |
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Daryl Hannah as Self |
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Rutger Hauer as Self |
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James Hong as Self |
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Syd Mead as Self |
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Lawrence G. Paull as Self |
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David Webb Peoples as Self |
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Terry Rawlings as Self |
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Paul Sammon as Self |
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William Sanderson as Self |
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Ridley Scott as Self |
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David L. Snyder as Self |
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Douglas Trumbull as Self |
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Joe Turkel as Self |
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M. Emmet Walsh as Self |
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Bud Yorkin as Self |
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Richard Yuricich as Self |
| Writing | Mark Kermode | Writer |
| Directing | Andrew Abbott | Director |
