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'''''On the Edge of Blade Runner''''' (55 minutes), produced in 2000 by Nobles Gate Ltd. (for [[Channel 4]]), was directed by [[Andrew Abbott]] and hosted/written by [[Mark Kermode]], and will be included in the Special Edition. Interviews with production staff, including [[Ridley Scott]] 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?]]''

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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 Bros.|Warner Brothers]] backlot that was the [[Los Angeles]] [[2019]] streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.

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The documentary then details the test screenings postproduction editing/changes (voice over and happy ending, deleted Holden hospital scene), special effects, soundtrack by [[Vangelis]], and the unhappy relationship between the filmmakers and the investors; which culminated in Deeley and Ridley being fired but still working on the film. The question of whether or not [[Themes in Blade Runner#Deckard: replicant or human.3F|Deckard]] is a replicant surfaces. After being a "disaster" in the box office (a financial loss initially) Blade Runner was reborn in the video rental market, and a great reception of a chance screening of Ridley's workprint at the Fairfax Theater, Los Angeles, in May 1990 led to Warner Bros. having the "Director's Cut" done by film archivist [[Michael Arick]].

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-'''''On the Edge of Blade Runner''''' (55 minutes), produced in 2000 by Nobles Gate Ltd. (for [[Channel 4]]), was directed by [[Andrew Abbott]] and hosted/written by [[Mark Kermode]], and will be included in the Special Edition. Interviews with production staff, including [[Ridley Scott]] 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 Bros.|Warner Brothers]] backlot that was the [[Los Angeles]] [[2019]] streets, which look very different from Ridley's dark version.
-The documentary then details the test screenings postproduction editing/changes (voice over and happy ending, deleted Holden hospital scene), special effects, soundtrack by [[Vangelis]], and the unhappy relationship between the filmmakers and the investors; which culminated in Deeley and Ridley being fired but still working on the film. The question of whether or not [[Themes in Blade Runner#Deckard: replicant or human.3F|Deckard]] is a replicant surfaces. After being a "disaster" in the box office (a financial loss initially) Blade Runner was reborn in the video rental market, and a great reception of a chance screening of Ridley's workprint at the Fairfax Theater, Los Angeles, in May 1990 led to Warner Bros. having the "Director's Cut" done by film archivist [[Michael Arick]].
-[[Category: Films]]