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

More Blade Runner inspired T-shirts

I have earlier told everyone about the online T-shirt store called Last exit to nowehere whom has some neat Blade Runner inspired t-shirt.
Now, they have meet some competition from another similar company called Wake up… Time to Die where you can find some really cool T-shirts designed and inspired by a bunch of classic movies. They currently have three “Blade Runner” inspired t-shirts and a lot of other great designs. They ship worldwide (see their website for full details) with free delivery to the mainland United Kingdom


Voight-Kampff Test
£18.00
Tyrell Corporation
£18.00
The Snake Pit £18.00

Source: Wakeuptimetodie.co.uk

Warner Bros. lets you upgrade your HD-DVD's to Blu-Ray discs

Did or do you own a HD-DVD player and also have any of the Blade Runner: Final Cut HD-DVD sets (or any other Warner Bros. HD-DVD release).. then listen up.
Warner Bros. have set up a very impressive upgrade system for everyone that has HD-DVD discs and the best thing is (as far as I understand) that you will receive new Blu-Ray discs when you send them your HD-DVD original cover art AND listen to this, you’ll get to keep your HD-DVD discs… Now, that is a sweet offer
Visit Warner Bros. Red2Blu – Upgrade your Warner Bros. HD-DVD’s for new Blu-Ray Discs site now
Source: The Digital Bits

"Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep" Comics comming this June

PHILIP K. DICK’S
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
24 ISSUE MAXI-SERIES
STARTS THIS JUNE

Issue #1 Includes Backmatter by Warren Ellis
First Issue Features Covers by Denis Calero, Bill Sienkiewicz, Scott Keating & Moritat
“Philip Dick, to my mind, was the great visionary writer of the 20th Century.” – Warren Ellis
“After I finished reading the screenplay for BLADE RUNNER, I got the novel out and looked through it. The two reinforce each other, so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy the movie and someone who started with the movie would enjoy the novel.” – Philip K. Dick
April 7th, Los Angeles – BOOM! Studios, in partnership with Electric Shepherd Productions, proudly announces that worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick’s award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? is coming to comics this June. Called “a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today” and having served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER, BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking 24-issue maxi-series.
The first issue will include backmatter by Warren Ellis and ships with three covers in a 50/25/25 split by Denis Calero, Bill Sienkiewicz and Scott Keating. A fourth cover by Moritat will be offered as a 1 in 25 incentive.
“I have been a huge fan of Philip K. Dick’s for years. I subscribed to the PKD Newsletter when I was in high school and have early editions of all his works,” said BOOM! Studios Marketing and Sales Director Chip Mosher. “You can’t imagine how excited I am personally, and BOOM! is as a whole, to be working on this project. I can’t wait to bring a whole new generation of fans to Dick’s original vision that has inspired so many.”
“We are thrilled that DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? is being adapted for this audience by such a talented team. We’ve been incredibly impressed with BOOM!’s ability to create such a faithful interpretation of the original work without sacrificing their own original instincts and artistic sensibilities,” said Laura Leslie and Isa Dick Hackett of Electric Shepherd Productions. “Through this medium, readers will now have visual access to parts of the novel not explored in the film adaptation BLADE RUNNER.”
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? takes place in a world where San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep… even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids — they’re machines, that not only look, sound, and think like humans, but are clever, and most of all, dangerous just like humans.
Rick Deckard, Pris, The Voight-Kampff Test, Nexus 6 androids, the Tyrell Corporation: join us for the publishing event of the year!
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? ships this June, Diamond Code APR09 0725.
About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios (http://www.boom-studios.com) is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry’s biggest talents. In its inaugural year, Wizard Magazine named BOOM! “Best New Publisher.” Founded by the creator of the TV show EUREKA, Andrew Cosby, and his partner Ross Richie, BOOM! Studios continues to be on the leading edge of comic and graphic novel publishing.
About Electric Shepherd Productions
Electric Shepherd Productions (http://www.electricshepherdproductions.com) was founded by Laura Leslie and Isa Dick Hackett, daughters of the late Science Fiction author Philip K Dick. “ESP” is the production arm of the Dick Estate, dedicated to the stewardship and adaptation of the Philip K. Dick library across all media.
Source: Phillip K. Dick Offical Site

Want some Blade Runner Origami ??

I found in one of the threads while I was browsing around over at the Blade Runner Props forum and after ordering and receiving a set of Blade Runner origami (which I think was all very well made) I’d came to think that there must be others out there whom would like to know of this and maybe get their own origami set.

I ordered a set from Blade Runner Origami by Gaff and the set consists of the origami chicken, origami unicorn and also the little happy man that Gaff makes out of what I think is a match. The cost for all these items where $20.

I should point out that I am not involved in making or selling these items so I can not answer any questions you might have about them but I can say that I think they are very well made and Im very happy to have added them to my Blade Runner collection
So, for more information on these lovely origami items visit Blade Runner Origami by Gaff
Source: Blade Runner Props

Deckard's "Hero" Blaster for sale

The “mother” of all Blade Runner blasters are now for sale and it will be auctioned together with many other Blade Runner items at 1st of May at Profiles In History, among some of the other Blade Runner objects that are auctioned off one can find some of Deckard’s clothing.

If you want to see what other items that will be up for grabs, then download Profiles In History’s HOLLYWOOD CATALOG : Forry Ackerman Estate Catalog


Click for large image.

The estimated price for the gun is $100.000 – $150.000 and whomever that will take that baby home can consider himself one lucky guy
Source: Blade Runner Props

2019: A Future Imagined – A Syd Mead Documentury

There’s a new documentury on Syd Mead called “2019: A Future Imagined” that’s availble online. It’s (for now) a short documentury but it will hopefully be a longer documentury with the support from the online community. You can find it as a digital download from the official website or Amazon.com.

Visual Futurist Syd Mead (“Blade Runner,” “Aliens,” “Tron”) reflects upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future. Photographed in stunning High Definition, this featurette provides insight into the fascinating mind of one of the most influential artists of modern cinema

You can find the trailer for 2019: A Future Imagined here.
Source: Jim Hunter

Briefcase with Blu-Ray re-release in Europe

On the 18’th of November Warner Bros. will re-release BLADE RUNNER: ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION (5-DISC) briefcase in Europe, this time with the movie contents (Not the extra material as far as I know) on Blu-Ray in Full High Defenition.

So, if youre looking for the briefcase with all of the contents on regular DVD’s then this re-release is not for you. The spanish website Zonadvd.com reports that this release will be identical with the old release and that it will have some of it’s contents in High Definition.
It uncertain in which European countries this Ultimate Edition will be re-released, if you want to be sure to get a copy of this edition you might have to import one from Spain which Im 100% sure of will be one of the countries that will get this release.
Source: Zonadvd.com

Another BR T-Shirt (For the colonies)

The T-shirt company Last Exit To Nowwhere which is a home to a collection of unique shirt designs which are inspired and pay homage to some of the most memorable places, corporations and companies in modern fiction has come up with yet another Blade Runner inspired T-Shirt (This is their third Blade Runner inspired shirt and they have a whole bunch of other cool shirts, their site and shirts are recommended)

This time it’s a t-shirt from the Shimata-Dominguez Corporation (Yeah, the company whom is “Helping America Into The New World”)
If you want to land directly at the product page for this t-shirt, click here
Source: Last Exit To Nowwhere