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Blade Runner - the final cut
« on: 2007-07-30 20:14:44 » |
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25 years in the making BLADE RUNNER will FINALLY be completed/released on Dec. 18. 2007.
Summed up:
Blade Runner's dark and film-noir dystopian vision, so upset original screening audiences that Ridley Scott's completion bond left him literally locked out of the editing room. And so the film was originally released in 1982 with Harrison Ford's condescending narration, and that riding into the sunset happy ending. Neither of these add-ons saved it from bombing at the box-office.
In 1991 pretty much by accident, a work-print version was started, made and then released which was a collaboration between Ridley Scott and then-Warner film preservation director Michael Arick. It removed the narration and "happy ending," and added the 'unicorn dream' which spurred so much "was Decker actually a Replicant?" talk amongst fans. But it was never Ridley's true vision.
NOW, on December 18th we FINALLY get the "final cut."
"The final set arrives in a briefcase containing five different versions of the film (including the workprint that started it all) and a three-hour documentary, giving fans license to choose their favorite take."
I might die if this isn't in my hands on the morning of release. Just sayin'.
The Variety article
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