Blade Runner Movie

Tuesday that it has obtained the rights to publish a video game based on the cyber-classic film, "Blade Runner." The CD-ROM game due out next year will allow players to battle killer androids just as Harrison Ford does in the 1982 Warner Bros. film, in which he plays a lone bounty hunter pitted against a rogue band of killer androids in a world tyrannized by high-tech corporations.

Ridley Scott was living in London in 1980 but looking for a leading man for his first Hollywood movie. The script was a strange one -- it was a surreal tale adapted from a 1968 novel about murderous artificial people in futuristic Los Angeles -- and Scott didn't have a certain title since he couldn't use the more-than-a-mouthful name of the book: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

As perhaps befits this darkest of dramas, Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" has spent most of its life in shadow. A landmark piece of visionary filmmaking, it hit theaters the same month in 1982 as "E.T.," the most popular fantasy film ever made. Possessed of extraordinary visual qualities, "Blade Runner" found them eclipsed by a numbingly portentous voice-over. When Oscar time came around, "Gandhi," of all things, bested it in the art direction category.

Tuesday that it has obtained the rights to publish a video game based on the cyber-classic film, "Blade Runner." The CD-ROM game due out next year will allow players to battle killer androids just as Harrison Ford does in the 1982 Warner Bros. film, in which he plays a lone bounty hunter pitted against a rogue band of killer androids in a world tyrannized by high-tech corporations.

Though Hollywood is singing the blues over the dismal box office of some of its new releases, the industry has struck gold restoring and re-releasing such classics as George Cukor's "A Star Is Born," David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia," Bernardo Bertolucci's "1900" and Stanley Kubrick's epic "Spartacus." While not exactly a member of that august company, director Ridley Scott's own cut of his 1982 cult favorite "Blade Runner" has been unearthed by Warner Bros. and is headed for theaters.

Ridley Scott was living in London in 1980 but looking for a leading man for his first Hollywood movie. The script was a strange one -- it was a surreal tale adapted from a 1968 novel about murderous artificial people in futuristic Los Angeles -- and Scott didn't have a certain title since he couldn't use the more-than-a-mouthful name of the book: "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

I had a dream the other night that I was a little old lady sitting in a shabby, one-room apartment reading about a man who had been offered all the money in the city to play baseball. His salary was in the billions, but that didn't bother her. Sports were the only form of entertainment the people had left in the dream world. She was reading by candlelight because the cost of electricity had gone beyond her means.

In "This Is the City," a study of politics, culture and media in Los Angeles over the last century or so, Ronald J. Schmidt Jr. writes with a kind of confidence and verve that is rare in academic scholarship. He conjures up several notable figures of 19th and 20th century L.A. -- Los Angeles Times Publisher Harrison Gray Otis, movie mogul Louis B.

In some respects, "I, Robot" -- a sci-fi thriller starring a futuristic Audi and, oh yes, Will Smith -- is fairly programmatic. In a future world, man's artificial helpmates rebel against their organic overlords and tear up the town. Robots gone wild. They might have filmed the whole thing in Fort Lauderdale. But in the annals of cinematic product placement -- and I'm afraid we have reached the point where there are such annals -- the film is a landmark. Stockholders in the company U.S.

Some writers encamp at coffee shops. Others lug their laptops to leafy parks or hushed university libraries. When D.J. Caruso came to Los Angeles, though, he found some of his best creative hours were spent amid the hustle and bustle of Union Station. Watching the parade of people with suitcases and train tickets spurred his imagination.

As perhaps befits this darkest of dramas, Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" has spent most of its life in shadow. A landmark piece of visionary filmmaking, it hit theaters the same month in 1982 as "E.T.," the most popular fantasy film ever made. Possessed of extraordinary visual qualities, "Blade Runner" found them eclipsed by a numbingly portentous voice-over. When Oscar time came around, "Gandhi," of all things, bested it in the art direction category.

Though Hollywood is singing the blues over the dismal box office of some of its new releases, the industry has struck gold restoring and re-releasing such classics as George Cukor's "A Star Is Born," David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia," Bernardo Bertolucci's "1900" and Stanley Kubrick's epic "Spartacus." While not exactly a member of that august company, director Ridley Scott's own cut of his 1982 cult favorite "Blade Runner" has been unearthed by Warner Bros. and is headed for theaters.