Blade Runner Sketchbook (1982)
One of the Ridley’s “Ridleygrams” from the production of Blade Runner
“Ridley Scott is one of the finest visual stylists in films. He was trained as a painter and art director, and is an established graphic designer. In the early stages of the production of Blade Runner, he communicated his ideas in sketches, which became known among stuff as “Ridleygrams”. He cites a variety of inspirations and influences for his visual style in Blade Runner, among them Hogarth drawnings, “thirties” photographs, and the contemporary comic strip work of Jean Giraud (better known as Moebius)”. (from ‘Blade Runner Scetchbook’)
Blade Runner Convention Reel (1982)
One of the Blade Runner Convention Reels featuring interviews with Ridley Scott, Syd Mead and Douglas Trumbull about making Blade Runner universe. This 16 mm featurette, made by M. K. Productions in 1982, is specifically designed to circulate through the country’s various horror, fantasy and science fiction conventions.
Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford on a shooting of Blade Runner (1981).
Ridley Scott and Harrison Ford on shooting of Blade Runner. Here Ridley rehearses a fight wit Harrison - a conflict that was mirrored in a real life on the set.
Photoplay Magazine - October 1982. Interview with Ridley Scott.
Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“The surest sign that the Blade Runner had been embraced by the nation’s literati, however, came in 1991, when the Bowling Green State University Popular Press published an entire book devoted to the film.
Titled Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ?, this impressive academic volume was edited by Judith B. Kerman and looked at “the multitude of texts and influences which converge in Ridley Scott’s film.”
Among the book’s nineteen well-written, scholary essays were such thoughtful contributions as Kerman’s own “Technology and Politics in the Blade Runner Dystopia,” Gregg Rickman’s “Philip K. DIck on Blade Runner: They Did Sight Stimulation on my Brain,” William M. Kolb’s “Blade Runner Film Notes,” and David Desser’s “Race, Space and Class: The Politics of the SF Film from Metropolis to Blade Runner.” (Paul M. Sammon in Future Noir - The Making of Blade Runner)
