Blade Runner: The Final Cut [Blu-ray]

Director: Ridley Scott Ridley Scott

Overview

Ridley Scott's celebrated sci-fi classic stars Harrison Ford as retired 21st Century Detective Rick Deckard, who is forced back into active duty in order to hunt a fugitive band of human-like androids known as "replicants" though the rain-soaked streets of L.A. After meeting with the eccentric Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), creator of the replicants, Deckard finds and eliminates Zhora (Joanna Cassidy) before coming under attack by the powerful Leon (Brion James). Deckard is about to be killed by Leon when he's saved by Rachael (Sean Young), Tyrell's assistant and a replicant who's unaware of her true nature. In the meantime, replicant leader Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) and his pleasure model lover, Pris (Darryl Hannah) use a dying inventor, J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson) to get close to Tyrell and murder him. Deckard tracks the pair to Sebastian's, where a bloody and violent final confrontation between Deckard and Batty takes place on a skyscraper rooftop high above the city. This digitally re-mastered version of the film features extended scenes and improved visual effects approved by the director in order to better reflect his original vision.

Product Details

Release Date:	01/04/2011
UPC:	0883929146697
Original Release:	2007
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Language:	English
Time:	1:57:00
Sales rank:	8,148

Special Features

Introduction by Director Ridley Scott; Three Filmmaker Commentaries: Ridley Scott; Executive Producer/Co-Screenwriter Hampton Fancher, Co-Screenwriter David Peoples, Producer Michael Deeley and Production Executive Katherine Haber; ; Visual Futurist Syd Mead, Production Designer Lawrence G. Paull, Art Director David L. Snyder and Special Photographic Effects Supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Harrison Ford	Actor
Rutger Hauer	Actor
Sean Young	Actor
Daryl Hannah	Pris
William Sanderson	J.F. Sebastian
Edward James Olmos	Gaff
M. Emmet Walsh	Bryant
Brion James	Leon Kowalski
Joe Turkel	Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Joanna Cassidy	Zhora
James Hong	Actor
Morgan Paull	Actor
John Edward Allen	Actor,Kaiser
Hy Pyke	Actor
Kimiko Hiroshige	Cambodian Lady
Bob Okazaki	Howie Lee,Policeman,Sushi Master
Ben Astar	Abdul Ben Hassan
Judith Burnett	Ming-Fa
Leo Gorcey Jr.	Louie - Bartender
Dawna Lee Heising	Showgirl
Sharon Hesky	Bar Patron
Kelly Hine	Showgirl
Tom Hutchinson	Bartender
Charles Knapp	Bartender
Kevin Thompson	Bear
Carolyn DeMirjian	Saleslady
Rose Mascari	Bar Patron
Leroy Jones	Street Punk
Michael Emment Walsh	Actor
Steve Pope	Policeman
Robert Reiter	Policeman
Alexis Rhee	Geisha #1
Tony Cox	Street Vandal
Vangelis	Composer
Marc Smith	Off-World Tourism Ad

Technical Credits

Ridley Scott

Hampton Fancher

David Webb Peoples

Ridley Scott	Director,Screenwriter
Hampton Fancher	Screenwriter,Producer,Executive Producer
David Webb Peoples	Screenwriter,Screenwriter
Michael Deeley	Producer
Philip K. Dick	Policeman
Charles de Lauzirika	Geisha #1
Jerry Perenchio	Producer
Run Run Shaw	Producer
Bud Yorkin	Producer
Tim Angulo	Special Effects
Bud Alper	Sound Effects
Gene Ashbrook	Sound Effects
Christopher Assells	Sound Effects
Beau Baker	Sound Effects
Karen Baker Landers	Sound Effects
Ivor Powell	Producer
Martyn Hall	Special Effects
Greg Curtis	Special Effects
Logan Frazee	Special Effects
Steve Galich	Special Effects
Richard L. Hill	Special Effects
Donald Myers	Special Effects
Scott Forbes	Special Effects
Gary Combs	Stunts
Brian Kelly	Executive Producer

Editorial Reviews

One of the most beautiful and visually influential science-fiction films ever made, Blade Runner established a futuristic film-noir style that combines and transcends the sci-fi and detective genres while pondering the nature of what it means to be human. Set in 2019, Los Angeles, director Ridley Scott's adaptation of author Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? stars Harrison Ford as world-weary android-hunter Rick Deckard, who slogs through the nightmarishly run-down, overcrowded urban dystopia that L.A. has devolved into, attempting to find and kill four escaped "replicants" -- physically superior artificial people bred for slavery. In the process of his investigation, he falls in love with a next-generation replicant (Sean Young), who is initially unaware that her human "memory" is largely implanted. Rutger Hauer, as the dangerous yet tragic replicant leader, and William Sanderson, as and infirmed, soul-burdened tinkerer who helped design the androids, turn in performances as stunning as the film's production design. For Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1992), Scott removed Ford's noir-ish narration, changed the happily-ever-after ending (which had been added at the studios insistence), and added a short, dreamlike scene involving a unicorn that expanded Deckard's unspoken anxiety over his own murky nativity.

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