xix, 441 pages : 24 cm

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti had known all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamorous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.--Publisher description

Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435)

Introduction: One man's obsession -- The film -- The book -- Development -- The director and the deal -- Script wars -- Designing Blade Runner -- The cast and crew -- The shoot -- "Blood Runner": friction on the set -- The special effects -- Postproduction and the music -- Sneaks and panic -- Voice-overs, San Diego, and a new happy ending -- The theatrical release -- The cult -- The workprint -- The director's cut -- Final shots -- App. A: Interview with Ridley Scott -- App. B: Different faces of Blade Runner: how many versions? -- App. C: Blade Runner blunders -- App. D: Blade Runner online -- App. E: The score: Blade Runner soundtrack catalog

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