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    Blade Runner
    Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem
    ( Action / Drama / Sci-Fi )


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    MPAA Rating:
    R
    [violence]

    US Runtime: 117 min

    Premiere Date:
    25 Jun 1982   [USA]
     
    Producers: Hampton Fancher   [Executive Producer]
    Brian Kelly   [Executive Producer]
    Jerry Perenchio   [Co-Executive Producer]
    Bud Yorkin   [Co-Executive Producer]
    Michael Deeley   [Producer]
    Ridley Scott   [Co-Producer]
    Ivor Powell   [Associate Producer]
    Run Run Shaw   [Associate Producer]
     
    Production Companys: Blade Runner Partnership
    The Ladd Company
     

    Cast:

    Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty
    Sean Young as Rachael
    Edward James Olmos as Gaff
    M. Emmet Walsh as Bryant
    Daryl Hannah as Pris
    William Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian
    Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell
    Joanna Cassidy as Zhora
    James Hong as Hannibal Chew
    Morgan Paull as Holden
    Kevin Thompson as Bear
    John Edward Allen as Kaiser
      Hy Pyke as Taffey Lewis
    Kimiko Hiroshige as Cambodian Lady
    Bob Okazaki as Howie Lee
    Carolyn DeMirjian as Saleslady
    Leo Gorcey Jr. as Louie the Bartender (uncredited)
    Sharon Hesky as Bar Patron (uncredited)
    Kelly Hine as Showgirl (uncredited)
    Robert Reiter as Policeman (uncredited)
    Rose Mascari as Bar Patron (uncredited)
    Tom Hutchinson as Bartender (uncredited)
    Jiro Okazaki as Policeman (uncredited)
    Charles Knapp as Bartender (uncredited)
     
     

    Crew:

    Albert Bettcher      camera operator
    Winnie D. Brown      costumer: women
    Dick Colean      camera operator
    Charles Cowles      camera operator: special photographic effects
    Tom Cranham      effects illustrator
    Howard Brady Davidson      transportation captain
    David Dryer      special photographic effects supervisor
    C.O. Erickson      executive in charge of production
    Terry D. Frazee      special floor effects supervisor
    Michael Genne      first asst. camera
    David Grafton      special engineering consultant
    Katherine Haber      production executive
    David R. Hardberger      camera operator: special photographic effects
    Richard Hart      gaffer
    Les Healey      first asst. editor
    Jack Hinkle      film coordinator
    Richard E. Hollander      computer engineer
    Bob E. Horn      costumer: men
    Jeffrey A. Humphreys      studio utility
    Saul Kahan      publicist
    Michael Knutsen      craft service
    James Lapidus      costumer: men
    Michael E. Matteson      key grip
      Linda Matthews      costumer: women
    Tim McHugh      camera operator: special photographic effects
    Gregory L. McMurry      electronic engineer
    Douglas Milsome      addl. photographer
    Virgil Mirano      still lab
    Steven B. Poster      addl. photographer
    Ana Maria Quintana      script supervisor
    Gary Randall      gaffer
    Terry Rawlings      supervising editor
    Jasmine Sabu      horse trainer final cut
    Steve Smith      first asst. camera
    Robert C. Thomas      camera operator
    Douglas Trumbull      special photographic effects supervisor
    Brian Tufano      addl. photographer
    Ian Underwood      musician: synthesizers
    Patrick Van Auken      key grip
    Vangelis      music producer
    Vangelis      music arranger
    Stephen Vaughan      still photographer
    John C. Wash      animator
    Richard Yuricich      special photographic effects supervisor
    R. William Zabala      asst. editor
     

    Special Effects:

    Anatomorphex
    Filmfex Animation Services Ltd.
     

    Miscellaneous Companies:

    Dream Quest Images ..... visual displays
    Intralink Film Graphic Design ..... titles
     

    Filming Locations:

    • 2nd Street Tunnel, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Bradbury Building - 304 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Burbank Studios, Burbank, California, USA   [studio]
    • Ennis-Brown House - 2655 Glendower Ave., Los Feliz, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Million Dollar Theatre - 307 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • New York Street, Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank Studios, Burbank, California, USA   [futuristic street scenes]
    • Pan Am building, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, Surrey, England, UK   [studio]
    • Union Station - 800 N. Alameda St., Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank Studios, Burbank, California, USA   [studio]

    Tech Info:

    • Budget: $28,000,000 (USA)
    • Color Info: Color (Technicolor)
    • Cinematographic Process: Panavision
    • Sound Mix: 70 mm 6-Track / the double-d symbol Dolby
    • Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
    • Film Negative Format: 35 mm
    • Printed Film Format: 35 mm

    Trivia:

    • The computer screen in Gaff's police spinner shows the same computer sequence (with the word "Purge") that the Nostromo displays in the film ALIEN (also directed by Ridley Scott).
       
    • The opening sequence was a shot of the I.C.I. Chemical Plant in Wilton, Teesside, UK - very close to Ridley Scott's (and Tony Scott) place of birth.
       
    • Dustin Hoffman was reputedly the original choice to play Deckard.
       
    • In the sequence where Deckard and Gaff approach police headquarters in a spinner, a model of the Millennium Falcon (Harrison Ford's spaceship in STAR WARS), disguised as a building, can be seen in the lower left corner of the frame. The model was a personal project of one of the film's model builders, and was used as a building at the last minute.
       
    • The title "Blade Runner" was borrowed from a never-produced screenplay by William S. Burroughs.
       

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