Harrison Ford's Blade Runner Gun on Auction

In 1982, you ran around your living room with a makeshift blaster, aping the mannerisms of Harrison Ford. The film Blade Runner grabbed hold of your imagination, and your life was changed forever.

Now, you can take your childhood dream of humanoid hunting to the next level. The very gun that you imitated with what seemed like a large stick is going to be auctioned by Profiles in History on April 30 and May 1, 2009.



The humanoid replica killer Blade Runner gun is expected to gather somewhere between $100K and $150K in this auction, especially as we're talking about a unique piece. Only one of its kind was made for Harrison Ford a.k.a Rick Deckard, and the gun is even more special as it is, indeed, a truly interesting blend between a Steyr-Mannlicher Model .222 SL receiver with custom-made amber grips that has been attached to a dual-trigger Charter Arms .44 police bulldog double-action revolver and sports 6 “futuristic” LED lights (2 green and 4 red), controlled by a switch on the lower side of the blaster.

Update: Ford's Rick Deckard sci-fi weapon, the only firing gun used in the cult film, went under the hammer for a whopping $270,000. Other highlights of the spring memorabilia sale, which brought in over $4 million were the Creature From The Black Lagoon's mask, Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mr. Freeze costume from Batman & Robin and Derek Meers' and Jason Voorhees costume from Friday the 13th.

Blade Runner’ Inspiration,‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep’ Headed To Comics

The Philip K. Dick story “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?,” which served as the inspiration for the 1982 science-fiction film “Blade Runner,” will be adapted into a 24-issue comic book series by publisher Boom Studios.

“‘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.”

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Visual Futurist Syd Mead (“Blade Runner,” “Aliens,” “Tron”) reflects upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future.

'Blade Runner' named best sci-fi flick

A new poll has named Blade Runner as the greatest science-fiction movie of all time.

Editors at Moviefone placed the Ridley Scott film ahead of The Empire Strikes Back and Aliens.

"A box office dud at the time of its release, this movie has undergone more facelifts than Joan Rivers," the experts explained.

The futuristic film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, tops a list compiled by editors at Moviefone.com - beating all the Star Wars, Alien, and Terminator movies hands down.

The top ten is as follows:

Blade Runner, 1982
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, 1980
Aliens, 1986
Star Wars: A New Hope, 1977
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951
The Matrix, 1999
Terminator 2, Judgement Day, 1991
The Thing, 1982
Alien, 1979
Forbidden Planet, 1956.

All Those Moments

I guess this has been out for a bit but I just happen to run into it. Available in E-Book, Hardcover or Paperback over here at HarperCollins.

Its a nice little autobiography by Rutger Hauer detailing his life in film. here is a preview.

He came to mainstream prominence as a machine more human than his creators in Blade Runner, terrified us as a hitchhiker bent on his own death and the death of anyone who got in his way in The Hitcher, and unforgettably portrayed a lonely king roaming the night as a wolf and pining for the love of a hawk during the day in Ladyhawke.

Rutger Hauer has dazzled audiences for years with his creepy, inspiring, and villainous portrayals of everyone from a cold-blooded terrorist in Nighthawks to a blind martial arts master in Blind Fury, but his movie career was nothing compared to his real-life adventures of riding horses, sword fighting, and leaving home at fifteen to scrub decks on a freighter and explore the world.

From poverty to working with a traveling theater troupe to his breakout European performance in Turkish Delight and working with legendary directors such as Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop and Basic Instinct) and Ridley Scott (Alien and Gladiator), Hauer has collected All Those Moments here.

Ridley Scott puts off Brave New World for The Forever War

You wait 25 years for a new Ridley Scott science fiction film then two come along at once. Not content with hatching a plan to bring Brave New World to the big screen, the British director of Alien and Blade Runner is to adapt Joe Haldeman's 1974 novel The Forever War.

Scott confirmed in October that he would be bring Aldous Huxley's dystopian classic to cinemas with Leonardo DiCaprio in the main role. At the time he was quoted as saying: "I waited for a book for 20 years and I have got the book. That will definitely be what I do next after Nottingham, the Robin Hood film (with Russell Crowe)."

It now appears the tome in question may not have been Brave New World, although Scott still seems certain to film Huxley's novel at some stage. Variety reports this morning that The Forever War will be the film-maker's next project after Nottingham.

"I first pursued The Forever War 25 years ago, and the book has only grown more timely and relevant since," Scott told the trade bible. "It's a science-fiction epic, a bit of The Odyssey by way of Blade Runner, built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise."

Haldeman's novel centres on a soldier who returns home from battling aliens for a few months in space to find his home planet has advanced many years into the future, and is unrecognisable. One aspect of the new society which jars with returning military types is the pre-eminence of homosexuality, which has been encouraged by the government to help relax overcrowding.

Scott recently acquired the rights to the book and is now looking for a writer to adapt it for the big screen.

Screenwriter Travis Wright Responds to Blade Runner 2 Story

I'm up for some persuasion if someone can truly convince me that Blade Runner 2 may be a worthwhile sequel.
Travis Wright, who was one of the screenwriters working on this and was the one who mentioned it during the Q&A, got in touch with SlashFilm in order to clarify all the details, from his own history to misconceptions to thoughts on sci-fi and why exactly he wanted to write this.

Here's the thing - Wright will immediately be starting at the very bottom and he'll have to fight his way up. There's no way around it and he's got to prove to millions of hardcore sci-fi fans that his story for the sequel ain't so bad after all. But before he can even get to that, he's got to prove that he's someone fans can trust. "I am a geek. I am a total fan boy. I have toys all over my office that [writing partner John Glenn] has always made fun of (we've been friends since third grade)," Wright explains. So he confirms that he's a geek that is potentially worthy of taking on a monumental task like this while at the same time respecting everything about the original Blade Runner. So what's next after gaining our trust?

John Glenn and I were paid to explore a potential secret sequel from [2003 to 2005] and wrote several [Blade Runner] sequel approaches working with Bud Yorkin.
"My only intention as a writer, in pursuing this project, is to help explore some of the questions Blade Runner raises that were the fodder for endless debate among my friends for two decades now," he explains.

So what are the questions that he is hoping to answer in a sequel?

"What does it mean to be human? That's the central question in life and the paramount question in Science Fiction. More pointedly: Is or isn't Deckard a replicant? What happens to Rachel? What are the off world colonies like? What happens to replicants once Tyrell is killed by one of his creations? These are some of the questions we explored with Bud Yorkin for a few years and I believe are a great basis for a story many fans like me are dying to see. Working on them has been a dream."

Blade Runner 2 ?

It’s being written, but there’s probably no reason to think it will ever happen. According to Slashfilm though, Travis Wright and John Glenn, the guys who wrote Eagle Eye are currently working on writing a sequel to Blade Runner.

The reason you don’t need to panic, is that this is just something they’re doing on their own. Obviously they want this to be turned into a movie, presumably because they hate the world, but they don’t seem to have the support of anyone that matters. It’s not backed by a studio or supported by anyone who actually owns any of the rights to the original movie. This is two guys writing Blade Runner 2 because, well, I guess they weren’t creative enough to come up with their own idea. At least that’s what I assume, whenever I hear someone is writing an unasked for sequel script.

This sort of thing happens all the time by the way. Every other week or so there’s some lower level Hollywood writer trying to get attention for himself by writing a sequel to something people care about. In every case, it amounts to nothing. No doubt this will too, especially once all of you start screaming about what an obviously awful idea this is. Blade Runner is a self-contained classic. There’s no room for a sequel, and I’m pretty sure that except for Travis Wright and John Glenn, no one wants one.