Per Fancher: “That night, I was looking through my books and came across a thin little volume by William Burroughs called Blade Runner. ‘Well, that was obvious, but what kind of detective exactly, what should he be called?’ I didn’t have an answer, but I’d better get one fast.” “What is it that Deckard is, professionally? ‘He’s a detective,’ I said. “Ridley, after a few months of us working on a draft, when he first came into the project, asked me a question that was so obvious I hadn’t really addressed it before,” Fancher tells me. Ridley asked what Deckard's profession was, and Hampton quickly, after flicking through his books, came up with " Blade Runner", and Ridley liked it. Suffice to say that a book called Blade Runner: A Movie found its way into the screenplay writer for Blade Runner (1982) Hampton Fancher's personal library, when he and Ridley Scott were adapting Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. There is some more history involving title changes, other authors and other books and attempted film productions that I won't go into, but you can read about here. What does this have to do with Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982)? Nourse, in which the term "bladerunner" (one word) is used to describe black market suppliers and transporters of medical equipment, and the name comes from the scalpel blade, and other instruments of incision, being typical items they'd sell or transport, and running in the sense of smuggling, which can sometimes involve literal running, but more often than not refers to trading routes, figuratively "runs".Īs you can see, the aforementioned scalpel makes an iconographic feature on the cover of the book, as well as a man running, so that the titular Bladerunner is literally displayed. However, the name 'Blade Runner' was taken from a different book called The Bladerunner (1974) by Alan E. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). The world of the Blade Runner films is based on the Philip K.
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