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.
Category: Blade Runner News
BOOM! Studios publishes "Electric Sheep" prequel
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. Continue reading “BOOM! Studios publishes "Electric Sheep" prequel”
Blade Runner – Scoring the music
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
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
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.
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"Ridley Scott Interviews" by Laurence F. Knapp & Andrea F. Kulas
There is some interesting excepts from the book “Ridley Scott Interviews” (Laurence F. Knapp & Andrea F. Kulas) at Google Books in which Sir Ridley Scott talks about some subjects in the Blade Runner movie, if you want to read the excepts click here or buy the book at Amazon.com & support Los Angeles, 2019
Source: Google Books
Sir Anthony Hopkins reciting Roy Batty
In an advert for Sky+ HD we can see Sir Antohny Hopkins talk about some of his “moments in movies that stays with us forever” and then recites the last words of Roy Batty
CryEngine2 goes Blade Runner
The community site GameArtist which is “all about various Game Art skills such as 3D Modeling & Texturing” is where they had a “Scene from a movie” contest a couple of months ago. The winning group was “The Replicants” and I guess you by now can guess what movie they choosed.
“The Replicants” group consists of Steven Chagnon, Alina Gal and Ilya Nedyal used the computer game engine Cryengine2 is what the the popular computer game Crysis was built with.
The end result of the work that “The Replicants” used in the contest is stunning and they won the contest before a group called “Twinkle in a Child’s Eye” whom entered with a scene from Hook, third place where a group called “Coridium” whom used X-Men 2 for inspiration.
There was actually another group called “Hot Dang! Sauce” whom entered the contest (ended up at 9’th place) whom also was inspired by Blade Runner.
For more information & wonderful artwork from the contest, please check out the Scene from a movie thread at the GameArtist forum. For more images from the winning entry by “The Replicants”, go to Steven Chagnon’s website below is the winning “Blade Runner” entries from the contest.
Source: Scene from a movie thread at the GameArtist forum & Steven Chagnon
Owners manual for your Blaster (.. and more)
Mark Raats, owner of The Blade Runner Blaster WorldCon Blaster Build website has created and published a great looking Owners Manual that you can download and print, it will be a great supplement to your Blade Runner blaster showcase.
You will also find some other printable downloads such as Deckard’s ID and other great looking items.
So, head on over to downloads pages at The Blade Runner Blaster WorldCon Blaster Build website now and get yourself some wonderful and free printable add-ons to your Blade Runner collection.
Source: Propsummit.com – The Art Of Blade Runner
Web Series Tied to ‘Blade Runner’
Back in June Ridley Scott announced that a new division of his commercials company, RSA Films was working on a video series called “Purefold.” which can be said is loosely related to Blade Runner. The series of linked 5 to 10 minute shorts, aimed first at the Web and then perhaps television will be released thru a “Creative Commons” license giving audience, brands and platforms rights to use anything released as they see fit and this will be the first time ever something like this happens.
Press Release
Purefold is the first product conceived by Ag8 and developed in partnership with Ridley and Tony Scott’s newly launched entertainment division Free Scott. Purefold is an open media franchise designed for brands, platforms, filmmakers, product developers and communities to collaboratively imagine our near future.
With a central theme ‘What does it mean to be human?’, the franchise explores the subject of empathy – a shared theme with Ridley Scott’s most compelling Science Fiction movie, Blade Runner.
The franchise contains infinite interlinked story lines, turned into short-format episodes by global talent pool of directors, and informed by real-time online conversations from the audience, which are harvested through FriendFeed, the world’s leading ‘life streaming’ technology site FriendFeed
Purefold content will be distributed according to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license, giving both audiences, brands and platforms unprecedented equal use rights through their participation.
Purefold is supported by commercial and academic pillars, such FriendFeed., Creative Commons, WPP, Aegis, Publicis and Naked Communications
If you have questions, please contact David or Tom by email, or post a message in the Purefold discussion group on FriendFeed
Nothing has as of yet been released as of yet but it will be very interesting to see what will come out of this project.
Source: Ag8 Purefold Press release