On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'

52 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2000

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'

52 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 2000

On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
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.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Channel 4 Television
Original title On the Edge of 'Blade Runner'
Directors Andrew Abbott
Writers Mark Kermode

Cast

Mark Kermode

as Self - Presenter

Brian Aldiss

as Self

Michael Arick

as Self

Joanna Cassidy

as Self

Michael Deeley

as Self

David Dryer

as Self

Hampton Fancher

as Self

Katherine Haber

as Self

Daryl Hannah

as Self

Rutger Hauer

as Self

James Hong

as Self

Syd Mead

as Self

Terry Rawlings

as Self

Paul Sammon

as Self

Ridley Scott

as Self

David L. Snyder

as Self

Joe Turkel

as Self

M. Emmet Walsh

as Self

Bud Yorkin

as Self

Philip K. Dick

as Self (archive footage)