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Unfortunately, you're more likely to get a Darryl Hannah pleasure model instead.

What happened to it? I've been waiting for years now. The latest update here seems hopeful, but nothing since.. and it was suggesting a release in time for the 25th anniversary..

I saw something unusual when I saw (again) Blade Runner.

When examining the photo with the ESPER machine, I observed that the photo was transformed into 3d in someway. In fact I remember the mirror, perhaps in a future a mirror inside the photo can apport information of the 3D scene...

The ESPER machine:

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Boulevard/7920/ bladeea2.html (spanish, sorry, but it has a diagram of the scene, where "espejo" means "mirror", there is a convex mirror)
http://www.brmovie.com/FAQs/BR_FAQ_Terminology.htm (some information in english)

It suddenly come to my mind when I read this announcement...

I post here once a year, so I am not registered, and forgive my spanglish :lol:

Egocentrico.

Did Blade Runner influence William Gibson when he wrote his cyberpunk classic, "Neuromancer"? Did Blade Runner influence cyberpunk in general?

It seems that both William Gibson and Ridley Scott were, at the time, both very much influenced by much of the visual styles and artwork featured in the magazine "Heavy Metal", notably the work by French artist Jean Giraud, AKA "Moebius". One story in particular, called "The Long Tomorrow", written by Dan O'Bannon and drawn by Moebius, was a major influence on the visual design of BR. Ironically, this story was in fact a parody of early American Film Noir.

Gibson, in an interview by Lance Loud in an article on the 10th anniversary of "Blade Runner" for the magazine "Details" (October 1992 issue), had the following to say:

"About ten minutes into Blade Runner, I reeled out of the theater in complete despair over its visual brilliance and its similarity to the "look" of Neuromancer, my [then] largely unwritten first novel. Not only had I been beaten to the semiotic punch, but this damned movie looked better than the images in my head! With time, as I got over that, I started to take a certain delight in the way the film began to affect the way the world looked. Club fashions, at first, then rock videos, finally even architecture. Amazing! A science fiction movie affecting reality!"

"Years later, I was having lunch with Ridley, and when the conversation turned to inspiration, we were both very clear about our debt to the Metal Hurlant [the original Heavy Metal magazine] school of the '70s--Moebius and the others. But it was also obvious that Scott understood the importance of information density to perceptual overload. When Blade Runner works best, it induces a lyrical sort of information sickness, that quintessentially postmodern cocktail of ecstasy and dread. It was what cyberpunk was supposed to be all about."

Also, here is an excerpt from an introduction Gibson wrote for the graphic novel adaptation of his own "Neuromancer" book:

"So it's entirely fair to say, and I've said it before, that the way Neuromancer-the-novel "looks" was influenced in large part by some of the artwork I saw in 'Heavy Metal'. I assume that this must also be true of John Carpenter's 'Escape from New York', Ridley Scott's 'Blade Runner'", and all other artifacts of the style sometimes dubbed 'cyberpunk'. Those French guys, they got their end in early."

this edition has been in the works since before 2002...there has been a mountain of legal difficulty in obtaining the rights for release.

Essentially, for anyone who cares, the BR workprint was being previewed in some houses in California being billed as "The Director's Cut". Ridley Scott / Warner was extremely unhappy at this notion, and after witnessing the large audiences it was drawing decided to release a real Director's cut in theatres, pressure from Warner made Scott rush it, and some of the footage he wanted at the time to use could not be found.

This is essentially the director's cut he wanted to release before...there's a lot of information on what is different and has been added here:

http://www.brmovie.com/BR_Special_Edition.htm

Just in case, here you can check up if you show any of the indicators that WB will be successful to get some more money extorted from you for nothing.

Oh, and Deckard shoots first.

According to this page, there seems to be a good chance that what you're after will be available on DVD next year. Also, the director's cut that was released wasn't exactly true to it's description, and a "better director's cut" is to also be released with this collection.

Lot's of legal issues on that one. I'm waiting with bated breath myself. Here's a page that's tracking the (little) progress that is made on it. Guaranteed sales, don't know what their problem is.

Actually the C-beams weren't improvised by Hauer, the C-beams survived being cut out in the improvisation by Hauer.

http://www.rutgerhauer.org/filmography/brdir.php

They were originally added to the 1981 version of the script by David Peoples

http://brmovie.com/Downloads/Docs/BR_Script_1981.t xt

C-beams are likely referring to Cerenkov (radiation) beams (radiation given by particles moving FTL for a given medium). Their observation (in vacuum) near the Tanhauser Gate would imply the presence of charged tachyon (faster than light) particles coming from the gate. Which makes sense because "gate" likely refers to the sci-fi concept of "jump gate" (a kind of access point for FTL travel - like the terminus a wormhole)

Back in the days of Blade Runner, there was still a little science left in the science fiction.

Pecs. Damn, sorry about that.

take your pick... the interview I'm remembering is Ford saying something like 'some people like the movie I guess, I just had a problem only having to walk around in front of futuristic set backdrops.'

Ridley says "So that didn't work out as a particularly good mix."

Aha, here's the interview:

He is also willing to admit that he is not fond of "Blade Runner," Ridley
Scott's futuristic cult favorite. "I played a detective who did no
detecting," he says. "There was nothing for me to do but stand around and give
some vain attempt to give some focus to Ridley's sets. I think some - a lot -
of people enjoy it, and that's their perogative."
- The Boston Globe, July 14, 1991 - BR FAQ

A bright green triad of glowing lights moving slowly through the shadows... and the guards never notice

Diversity is good--for apps. When you are trying to win marketshare on the desktop, diversity is confusion for the end user. Joe Sikspak doesn't care if he's using KDE or Gnome. He doesn't want to know what a window manager is. To him, a kernel is a white-haired, goateed, string-tie wearing peddler of greasy chicken. He wants the easiest and cheapest way to download REO Speedwagon tunes, play games, and surf for porn.

Linux distros are like going to the movie rental place and taking three hours to pick out a 90 minute movie. You weed though the stacks of Eric Roberts "B" Movies only to end up going home with Blade Runner for the fifth time.

Nog

Apparently you are correct. This FAQ entry says that the term is not used in the book at all.

This link gives details on where the term comes from.

The title can be traced back to a book by science fiction / fantasy writer Alan E. Nourse who rote a story called "The Bladerunner". The story dealt with an impoverished society where medical supplies were so scarce they had to be supplied by smugglers known as "Blade Runners".

Apparently you are correct. This FAQ entry says that the term is not used in the book at all.

This link gives details on where the term comes from.

The title can be traced back to a book by science fiction / fantasy writer Alan E. Nourse who rote a story called "The Bladerunner". The story dealt with an impoverished society where medical supplies were so scarce they had to be supplied by smugglers known as "Blade Runners".

Blade Runner was actually a screenplay based on the Philip K. Dick novel, 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?'.

Neuromancer was published in 1984, Do Androids Dream was originally published in 1968 and the film in 1982 so there is a good chance that they could have influenced Neuromancer. Sadly I haven't read the book, but I read Do Androids Dream...? a long time ago and have seen Bladerunner over and over.