The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott's transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner Ridley Scott's
2007 ?Final Cut? confirmed the international film cognoscenti's judgment: Blade Runner based
on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of
Electric Sheep? is among the most visually dense thematically challenging and influential
science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper
understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its
best. In this intensive intimate and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account film
insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative
genius to transform the work of science fiction's most uncompromising author into a critical
sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the
original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination
of writers producers special effects wizards and the most innovative art directors and set
designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and expanded edition of Future
Noir includes: An overview of Blade Runner 's impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged
significance in popular culture since the book's original 1996 publication An exploration of
the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007 A look at its
long-awaited sequel Blade Runner 2049 The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted
about Blade Runner Exclusive new interviews with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young A fascinating look
at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art illustrated with production photos and
stills Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking the
business of Hollywood and one of the greatest films of all time.
