What different versions of Blade Runner are there?
• US sneak preview, (1982, very limited release in 1991) • US theatrical release (1982) • European/LD/10th Anniversary cut (more violence) • Director’s Cut (BRDC) (1992) Ridley Scott re-released the sneak preview at select movie festivals in 1991. There were rumours that THIS version was the director’s cut, but that did not appear until 1992. Hampton Fancher did eight drafts of the screenplay. These drafts concluded with Deckard taking Rachael out of the city, letting her see nature for the first time, and then, because she has only a few days to live, shooting her in the snow. David Peoples was brought in to polish the script, and Ridley Scott asked him to make the plot include more clues. Peoples worked on the humanity of Deckard’s adversaries, and in fact his daughter mentioned the biological term “replicate”, which led to “replicant”. Peoples also told Scott that the screenplay was virtually perfect before he worked on it. [Source: Los Angeles Times Magazine, September 13, 1992 (p.
