Links to everything pertaining to Blade Runner and DADoES, from scripts to
fan sites.
This is the first Blade Runner fanzine, called "CITYSPEAK."
It debuted in December of 1982, and was published by Sara Campbell, who hailed from Madison, Wisconsin. Unfortunately,
Campbell died in 1985. She'd only published three issues. Here is the first issue.
Special thanks to Andy Pokon for providing this wonderful find to
KippleZone. This is truely an important piece of Blade Runner history.
Can't get enough of Blade Runner? Read the sequel books. Watch the
sidequel. Learn about the script that "could have been" Blade Runner 2. Play the Blade Runner games!
MEMORIA ~ Blade Runner: The Rock Project
Compiled, Edited, and Interviewed by C.A. Chicoine
Just when you thought Blade Runner couldn't get any better, along comes MEMORIA! For the
English speaking Blade Runner Enthusiasts, I present to you, MEMORIA ~ Blade Runner: The Rock Project. This is a five piece band performing original material to the back-drop of the movie Blade Runner. Formed in
Italy, this rock oriented ensemble debuted the Blade Runner Rock Project in 2006.
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick "At an oil painting Phil Resch halted, gazed intently. The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head
like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open in a vast, soundless scream. Twisted ripples
of the creature's torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was,
had been contained by its own howl. It had covered its ears against its own sound. The creature stood on a bridge and no one
else was present; the creature screamed in isolation. Cut off by-or despite-its outcry."
"I think," Phil Resch said, "that this is how an andy must feel." He traced in the air the convolutions, visible
in the picture, of the creature's cry. "I don't feel like that, so maybe I'm not an--" He broke off, as several persons
strolled up to inspect the picture."
Edvard Munchs' "Scream"
Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks"
Ridley Scott carried a photo of Edward Hopper's famous painting "Nighthawks" with him during shooting to show it to the crew members,
to give them a feeling what kind of mood he wanted to create in the film.
Paintings such as Nighthawks (Art Institute of Chicago, 1942) convey a mood of loneliness and desolation by
their emptiness or by the presence of anonymous, non-communicating figures. But of this picture Hopper said: `I didn't see
it as particularly lonely... Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.'
This article is based on a retrospective film series I attended given by Douglas Trumbull in October of
2006. It's primary focus is on the movie Blade Runner.
"Trumbull Tribute" By Lee Gaskins Used with permission.
Dave Christen (AKA THX1138) has done a great job in giving us his own
write-up of the Syd Mead Presentation. Respect also goes to Kipple, for his help in arranging the scans.
On the web there once was a Japanese computer-generated animation of the following alternate opening
scene to the Blade Runner movie. I did find the storyboard that it is taken from. If anyone knows of this animation
I'd like to either host it or link to it to share with other Blade Runner Enthusiasts.
The panels featured below are from Sherman Labby's storyboard, representing an unshot, alternate opening
scene to Blade Runner.
This is close to what I remember. The clip I recall had a slower pace, and was crafted with more detail...smoothly
done. This one is done differently. However, this is certainly the next best thing!
NEW! This will feature fan-based art related to DADoES and blade runner !
In the webcomic Dieselsweeties the main character of Clango, a robot, is seen asleep in one panel. Above his head, he is clearly shown dreaming of an electric
sheep.
Clango
Crazy, a humour magazine, (An imitator of the popular MAD Magazine.), published by Marvel
Comics (1973 to 1983), published a Blade Runner parody comic called Blade Bummer.
In 1983, an anthropomorphic parody of Blade Runner, known as Bad Rubber, was released.
It was written and illustrated by Steve Gallacci, and published in the prototype issue (NR 0, VOL 0) of his comic
book title Albedo Anthropomorphics. In Bad Rubber, the character based on Rick Deckard is a duck named "Rick
Duckard".
Steve Gallacci had seen Blade Runner opening night in Seattle, Washington. Afterwards, at dinner, a friend of his
(a duck fan) came up with the idea of Rick Duckert, and he sketched a flat-topped duck in a trenchcoat. Such a hit,
within forty-eight hours the script of Bad Rubber was complete.
"The Long Tomorrow" is the title of a short story comic written by Dan O'Bannon around 1975 or 76, and illustrated by Moebius.
The storytelling of "The Long Tomorrow" is inspired by film noir and hardboiled crime fiction, but the story
is set in a distant, science fiction future, making it one of the first true cyberpunk stories. The comic came to the attention
of Ridley Scott and was a key visual reference for Blade Runner.
Ridley Scott wanted Giraud to work on Blade Runner, but he was under contract elsewhere at the time. Although
he was not directly involved, his style was certainly referenced during production.
It was originally serialised in two segments in the French magazine Metal Hurlant in 1976 and later by the American magazine
Heavy Metal in Vol. 1 No. 4 and Vol. 1 No. 5 published in July 1977 and August 1977 respectively.
Dan O'Bannon co-wrote the original story and screenplay for Ridley Scott's landmark film Alien (1979). O'Bannon went
on to co-write the screenplay for Total Recall (1990), an adaptation of the Philip K. Dick short
story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale." Later in 1995, he would co-write the screenplay for the movie
Screamers, based on another of Philip K. Dick's short stories titled "Second Variety".
Blade Runner is more than just a movie. It's a mythology.
