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Blade Runner (1982) Directed by Ridley Scott, based on a book by Philip K Dick.

Soldier (1998) Starring Kurt Russell as a genetically engineered soldier, this film features similarities to Blade Runner. Script was written by David Peoples, who also was involved in rewriting the script for Blade Runner.

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Interior of the Bradbury Building, where several scenes of Blade Runner" were shot.

The Bradbury Building is an architectural landmark in Los Angeles, California, in the United States and was used extensively as a setting for the film Blade Runner. The building was built in 1893.

The building was commissioned by Lewis Bradbury (after whom it is named), a mining millionaire who had become a real estate developer in the later part of his life. His plan (in 1892) was to have a five story building constructed at Third and Broadway Streets in Los Angeles, close to the Bunker Hill neighborhood.

A local architect, Sumner Hunt, was first hired to complete a design for the building but Bradbury ruled against constructing his plans which he did not view as adequately matching the grandeur of his vision. Bradbury then hired George Wyman one of Hunt's draftsmen, to design the building.

Wyman was especially influenced in the construction of the building by Edward Bellamy's book Looking Backward (published in 1887) which described a Utopian society in the year 2000.

Books

Novels

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Blade Runner 2: The Edge of Human
Blade Runner 3: Replicant Night
Blade Runner 4: Eye and Talon

Reference books

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Did you know...

From Off-World's newest articles:

• ....that there have been SEVEN versions of the film Blade Runner released?
• ....that most of the Blade Runner soundtrack didn't see the light of day until the 1992 release of the Director's Cut version of the film?
• ....that a replicant - a bioengineered or biorobotic being in the film Blade Runner - got its name from screenwriter David Peoples' daughter, who suggested the term "replicating," which is the process of duplicating cells for cloning?
• ....along with The Man in the High Castle, the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - upon which the movie Blade Runner was based - is Philip K. Dick’s most famous novel?

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