Ridley Scott’s futuristic tale, ‘Blade Runner’ has been voted as the greatest sci-fi film of all time in a new poll.
The film, starring Harrison Ford as android hunter Rick Deckard, triumphed after beating the ever-popular Star Wars in the poll for Total Film magazine.
The film, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary next year, had struggled initially at the box office but went on to be viewed as a classic.
“Once seen and heard, so many scenes from Blade Runner burn into your brain forever. It’s sci-fi at its bleakest and most brilliant,” the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Jamie Graham, deputy editor of Total Film, as saying.
The top 10 sci-fi films are:
1. Blade Runner (1982)
2. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
3. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
4. Alien (1979)
5. Star Wars (1977)
6. ET: The Extra Terrestrial (1982)
7. Aliens (1986)
8. Inception (2010)
9. The Matrix (1999)
10. The Terminator (1984).
7.08.2011
Blade Runner named greatest sci-fi film of all time
9.24.2010
5.14.2010
Prequel to Philip K. Dick’s Electric Sheep Hits iPad
Nearly three decades after Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? sparked Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner movie, the novel has inspired a comic book prequel that explores Earth’s first wave of droid hunters.
Titled Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Dust to Dust, the $4 comic book by I Zombie writer Chris Roberson and 48 Stron artist Robert Adler lands May 26.
Roberson says the comic, offered in four variant covers (including the Trevor Hairsine art pictured above left), draws on a major theme running through Dick’s 1968 sci-fi classic. “There are a number of references to World War Terminus and the radioactive dust responsible for killing off nearly all animal life and rendering humans sterile,” he told Wired.com in an e-mail.
“Our story takes place in the immediate aftermath of that war as the populace comes to grips with the virtual extinction of animal life,” he said. “Meanwhile, the off-world colonies lure more and more people away, and androids originally intended for the battlefield are being repurposed to serve as the colonial workforce.”
To get a free sneak peek at the story, fans can eyeball an eight-page digital preview on an iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch. The Dust to Dust app, devised by comiXology and Boom Studios, includes a retail locator bundled with a preorder feature for those who want to purchase physical copies.
4.24.2009
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.
4.08.2009
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.”
12.18.2008
2019: A Future Imagined
Visual Futurist Syd Mead (“Blade Runner,” “Aliens,” “Tron”) reflects upon the nature of creativity and how it drives the future.
12.07.2008
'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.
