Blade Runner News
Herve Attia’s Blade Runner Filming Locations
Oct 22nd
This is a spectacular clip, youtube user HerveAttia has visited some of the Blade Runner filming locations and edited together a truly wonderful video that is almost 11 minutes long. If you’ll only got to see one Blade Runner clip online make sure this is the one.
Herve Attia has truly done a mans job with this video
If you want more, check out Herve’s “On the set of Blade Runner” site.
BOOM! Studios publishes “Electric Sheep” prequel
Oct 22nd
BOOM! STUDIOS
& ELECTRIC SHEPHERD
PRESENT
THE AUTHORIZED PREQUEL TO
PHILIP K. DICK’S
DO ANDROIDS DREAM
OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
PREMIERING MAY 26th
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF
ELECTRIC SHEEP?: DUST TO DUST
April 22, 2010 – Los Angeles, CA – This May, BOOM! Studios and Electric Shepherd bring you the debut of the authorized prequel to Philip K. Dick’s sci-fi masterpiece DO ANDROID DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? — the publishing event of the year is DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? DUST TO DUST!
Written by Chris Roberson, a John W. Campbell Award-nominee and writer of DC’s hit mini-series CINDERELLA: FROM FABLETOWN WITH LOVE, DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? DUST TO DUST will feature spectacular interior art by 48 STRON and STATUS 7 artist Robert Adler. The prequel makes a great companion to BOOM! Studios and Electric Shepherd’s Eisner Award-nominated DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? comic series or can be read completely on it’s own. More >
Blade Runner – Scoring the music
Oct 22nd
The unofficial Vangelis website Nemo Studios has posted an very interesting article about Vangelis music in Blade Runner and the recording process, the article is called “Blade Runner – Scoring the music” and it’s recommended reading. If you’re into Vangelis you’ll find the website very interesting.
Secret Cinema: Blade Runner
Oct 22nd
Now, this is a pretty cool thing right and Im pretty sure most of you have heard about the secret showing of Blade Runner in which actors guiding the lucky people that was going to see the movie to the right location and also hinting them of what movie they will see. The whole thing with Secret Cinema is that you wont know what movie you’ll watch but are only given hints on what it will be.
Anyways, here are some clips from the UK showing of Blade Runner.
Secret Cinema presents Blade Runner
Secret Cinema: Blade Runner on CNN
Ridley Scott takes on another PKD story
Oct 19th
Director Ridley Scott is returning to the work of the late Philip K Dick to executive produce a BBC TV adaptation of one of the American sci-fi writer’s novels.
Howard Brenton, the playwright and Spooks writer, is adapting Dick’s Hugo award-winning dystopian novel The Man in the High Castle into a four-part BBC1 mini-series.
Set in the 1960s in an alternative scenario where the Axis forces defeated the Allies in the second world war, the drama will be co-produced by Scott’s independent production company Scott Free Films. Scott’s credits include Blade Runner, the science fiction movie loosely based on Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? and Gladiator, starring Russell Crowe.


