bladerunner: the final cut, this time the real final directors cut
25 years after its release on to an unsuspecting public who were expecting Harrison Ford to be playing a similar role to his Indiana Jones character, Bladerunner, a fine mix of science fiction and film noir, is finally released as the movie that director Ridley Scott intended to release. Long a cult classic, Bladerunner was previously re-released in 1992 when Warner Bros realized they had a money maker on their hands after all. The original movie was not Scott’s original vision after being edited against his will due to a falling out with the movie’s producers. “Blade Runner: The Final Cut” as the latest version of the movie is titled opens at the Ziegfeld in New York and the Landmark in Los Angeles on Friday, and comes out in December in a five-disc set with loads of extra features. Read more about the new release.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:20 am
uh oh. i just found an origami figure of a unicorn outside my door. i think…..i may…..be a replicant.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:37 am
@erik: do not buy this for yourself until after x-mas.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:38 am
Josh, all your memories are belong to us….
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:44 am
i’m riding the exterior elevator of moose headquarters right now dave. we’re going to play some chess.
October 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 am
I remeber back about 3 or 4 years ago when that music supervisor came to Portland and we watched Blade Runner with an entirely different soundtrack.
October 2nd, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Word on the street is Harrison Ford’s son Ben plays Deckard in a revised scene. Until yesterday I had no idea there was a Ben Ford. Mind? BLOWN.
October 2nd, 2007 at 3:03 pm
@jragel… it’ll take me until after xmas to figure out all the different packaging/formats anyway. Maybe you can have too much of a good thing.
October 2nd, 2007 at 4:12 pm
@erik, Unlike the Radiohead deal I think this one’s more simple…one 5 DVD box set….one released-to-theatres movie, Bladerunner: The Final Cut.
October 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 pm
I’m sorry, Dave. I cannot open the pod bay doors at this time.
Whoops, sorry, wrong film!
October 3rd, 2007 at 7:29 am
So I went to the Radiohead website and I tried to order Bladerunner for like, a dollar, and I don’t think I did it right because now I’m not allowed to go back to that website…or anywhere within 40 yards of Ridley Scott.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:50 am
how will he hear your ideas for blade runner 2? you know there is a hollywood exec out there who has muttered the phrase. “what if we had a battle royale between aliens, predators, and replicants?”
this thread is possibly dying a slow painful death.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:50 pm
yes yes—we COULD let this thread die but—but what about my golf pajamas joke? “gang of fore!”??? ahahahaha. pajamas? come on, peeps! can’t you see my courtesy-laugh-card? with every bad joke it gets punched and now it’s up to 10 so…pay up…..please. thank you in advance.
and k: I’m surprised that staying away from Ridley Scott thing isn’t in meters. or kilometers.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:09 pm
I was TOTALLY going to put meters except I’m an AMERICUN.
Freedom! Say it with me frenz.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:37 pm
Hells yeah. Been waiting too long for this. Stoked.
Speaking of pod bay doors, anyone know why 2001 wasn’t re-released in theatres in 2001? Didn’t they stand to make a lot of money by doing that?
October 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 pm
i’m betting its control issues from kubrick. he did things like destroy the set pieces from the film to make any sequels like 2010 more difficult. he probably had final edit in his contract and had no desire to edit it for marketing purposes.
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Josh, probably correct. He did after all try and withdraw A Clockwork Orange right?
October 3rd, 2007 at 11:05 pm
what do you mean by withdraw?
January 29th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
[...] Just when I thought I’d missed it, The Laurelhurst Theater here in Portland brought Blade Runner: The Final Cut back around (I wasn’t here when it first played, and somehow, I missed the movie’s original release, though during that same time I managed to see all three Star Wars as they came out). Thankfully Ridley Scott’s upgrades are subtle. He didn’t feel the need to George-Lucas it up with obvious and jarring new scenes and CGI. The changes are relatively seamless. [...]