When Was The Film Blade Runner Released?
The science fiction film Blade Runner was released in June 1982 in the United States; the film directed by Ridley Scot and distributed by Warner Brothers stars Harrison Ford, Darryl Hannah, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young among others. The screenplay of the film was written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples; the film is based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film is set in a near future time portraying the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019; the storyline revolves around the concept of ‘replicants’ who are human clones assigned to perform hazardous tasks in Earth’s space colonies. However the replicants mutiny and it becomes necessary to retire or eliminate their presence from Earth. For the task special police forces are assigned the task of tracking and eliminating the replicants; the police units are referred to as blade runners with the storyline focusing on a group of vicious replicants who are active in Los Angeles and their duel with the blade
