This is the rare UK Channel 4 documentary about Blade Runner, giving insights into it's history with interviews of Ridley Scott, the writers and nearly all the cast. Interviews with production staff, including Ridley, give details into the creative process and turmoil during preproduction. Stories from Paul M. Sammon and Fancher provide insight into Philip K. Dick and the origins of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Interweaved are cast interviews with the notable exceptions of Harrison Ford and Sean Young. Through these interviews we get a sense of how difficult and frustrating the film was to make as a result of an exacting director without allies and hot, wet, smoggy conditions; which added to the high pressure atmosphere everyone increasingly felt as the film went over budget. There is also a tour of some locations, most notably the Bradbury Building and the Warner Brothers backlot that was the LA 2019 streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.
On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
July 15, 2000
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Mark Kermode
Self - Presenter
Brian Aldiss
Self
Michael Arick
Self
Joanna Cassidy
Self
Michael Deeley
Self
David Dryer
Self
Hampton Fancher
Self
Katherine Haber
Self
Daryl Hannah
Self
Rutger Hauer
Self
James Hong
Self
Syd Mead
Self
Lawrence G. Paull
Self
David Webb Peoples
Self
Terry Rawlings
Self
Paul Sammon
Self
William Sanderson
Self
Ridley Scott
Self
David L. Snyder
Self
Douglas Trumbull
Self
Joe Turkel
Self
M. Emmet Walsh
Self
Bud Yorkin
Self
Richard Yuricich
Self
Philip K. Dick
Self (archive footage)
Andrew Abbott
Director
Mark Kermode
Writer