Blade Runner is a science fiction film that met with little success in the original theatre release, but then its fame grew incredibly to the point of becoming "the cult movie of the 80's!" Released in 1982, becoming a cult favorite for its fans, Bladerunner has been subjected to an attentive analysis of both technical details and plot minutia. This process has proven useful in answering the dozens of questions raised for discussion by the most dedicated fans. The collections of these questions and answers are called FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) and could be found anywhere on the Internet. I have chosen, in this site, to publish all of the material in a narrative format rather than as a FAQ, but that doesn't mean that you won't find almost all the information here that you would find in a "FAQ site".

Blade Runner won the Hugo prize for best film in 1983. In a referendum of the members of the World Science Fiction Convention in 1992, Blade Runner still drew enough admiration to win third place as the best SF film of all time. The first and second place winners were Star Wars and 2001: A Space Odissey.

The film was directed by the famous director Ridley Scott, and its protagonist was played by Harrison Ford. The other principal actors are Sean Young, Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah. The fantastic soundtrack was realized by Vangelis and special effects by Syd Mead.

 

		Blade Runner was inspired by the Philip K. Dick novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" (In Italian "Cacciatore di Androidi," published by Editrice Nord). The film only draws some characters and concepts from the novel. The filmÕs title can be attribuited to Alan E. Nourse, who wrote a story called "The Bladerunner." The rights to the title were sold to Ridley Scott in perpetuity. The connection between the Bladerunner of Nourse and ScottÕs Blade Runner consists only of the name. In fact, NourseÕs title referred to people who sold medical tools to outlaw doctors who were unable to obtain them through legal channels. Scott thought that the title was a good "code name" for his Deckard character.
Some of the visual elements of the film were inspired by a work by Dan O'Bannon and Moebius (Jean Giraud) called "The Long Tomorrow" which ran in a number of issues of the French comic magazine "Wonders of the Universe." The cover of the fourth installment proclaims (translation from the French): "This issue also contains other famous stories, like "The Long Tomorrow," which originally seemed to be a parody (but wound up to be more real than the same parody) of the classical American detective-story. This story was used as a visual reference for the film "Blade Runner".