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Amazing Blade Runner Photos From Behind The Scenes

Now it’s common practice for Hollywood’s major studios to release not only photos from behind the scenes, but entire, detailed making of documentaries detailing everything that happened during the filming of their latest blockbuster. But that wasn’t the norm at all back in 1982 when Ridley Scott, Harrison Ford, and Rutger Hauer were on set shooting Blade Runner. Without the internet as a distribution method all you ever really saw was the final product on film or, if you were a particularly attentive, a few photos published in one of the era’s industry magazines.

But Blade Runner was a special film and if you’ve ever wondered what it must have been like on the set, here’s your answer in the form of a series of newly surfaced, stunning photos from behind the scenes while they filmed.

The above photos come from the amazing blog of Gavin Rothery where he has dozens more amazing images snapped behind the scenes of Blade Runner. He was also the source of those fantastic Dune photos we brought you earlier this week, and that makes his blog a place worth visiting regularly.

Comments

  • Gospyro

    Harrison Ford looks so young!!!!  One of the few movies that CHANGED how sic-fi movies are made!

  • http://www.wix.com/winteroud/chronos-productions Dante D’Anthony

    A masterpiece to be sure.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=881280112 Deborah Pedersen

    Rutger Yummy Yum Yum Hauer… sigh.

  • Dzynguy

    BR is my fave film of all-time. My whole home theatre (the Bradbury), is themed around the film, stocked with int’l posters,games,models,etc…It was something about the perfect mix of style,audio,theme,just one of those all-encompassing movies that seemed to get it right (minus the obvious errors on first release like the discrepancy in the number of replicants,the visible wires lifting the spinner up,etc). The Vangelis score was sublime,and the film is the epitome of a true cult classic,that was light years ahead of its time. Bring on the sequel with Sir Ridley helming, and a cameo with Mr. Ford in it. pretty please? with cherries on top.

  • Randy Paré

    Film: I like the original theatrical release, before Scott retroactively won his battle against the screen writer and Harrison Ford by altering the movie in subsequent releases. The original book: is amazing Phillip k. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” is a classic. The comic books from Boom! Studios are a brilliant tour de force – using the entire text of the novel and stunning art from Tony Parker.