Blade Runner is a UK VHS release by Warner Home Video. It was originally released on Rental in the UK on 30th September 1983. It was re-released on Sell-Through on 7th November 1988 and again on 5th June 1989 (as part of the Warner Sci-Fi Collection), and also in January 1990 (as part of the 4th Dimension Collection). The Director's Cut was first released by Warner Home Video in the UK on 7th June 1993. The Director's Cut was re-released on Warner Home Video's Beyond Vision label on 10th July 1995. The Theatrical Cut was re-released once more on 4th November 1996 (as part of the Screen Classics Collection) and the Director's Cut again on 8th September 1997 (as part of the Maverick Director's series). The first DVD release in the UK was 29th October 1999. A remastered version of the Director's Cut was released on DVD on 9th October 2006. Blade Runner: The Final Cut was released on both DVD and Blu Ray on 3rd December 2007. A 5-Disc Ultimate Edition DVD set, including five alternative cuts of the movie, was also released on 3rd December 2007.
It was first shown on UK television on ITV on the 5th June 1986.
Description[]
Los Angeles in the year 2019. Huge neon advertisements illuminate the night sky above the city's towering skyscrapers. The interiors, however, are murky and dark, the oppressive gloom occasionally relieved by beams of light from a roving spotlight. The majority of Earth's population has left for outer space with only the misfits and decadent sophisticates left behing to populate the planet. Infiltrating this strange, derelict society are four replicants, laboratory-created creatures who are practically indistinguishable from humans - whose job it is to perform menial tasks in outer space, and who are forbidden, an pain of destruction, to set foot on Earth. These replicants have hi-jacked a space-shuttle by killing its crew and are now in Los Angeles passing themselves off as humans. It is up to super-cop Harrison Ford to seek them out and eliminate them before they can eliminate him...
Running Time: 112 Minutes
Copyright 1982 The Blade Runner Partnership
Cast[]
- Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard
- Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty
- Sean Young as Rachael
- Edward James Olmos as Gaff
- M. Emmet Walsh as Bryant
- Daryl Hannah as Pris
- William Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian
- Brion James as Leon Kowalski
- Joe Turkel as Eldon Tyrell
- Joanna Cassidy as Zhora Salome
- James Hong as Chew
- Morgan Paull as Dave Holden
- Hy Pyke as Taffey Lewis
Credits[]
- Directed by Ridley Scott
- Screenplay by Hampton Fancher & David Peoples
- Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Produced by Michael Deeley
- Executive Producers Brian Kelly and Hampton Fancher
- Associate Producer Ivor Powell
- Cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth
- Visual Effects by Douglas Trumbull
- Music by Vangelis
- Edited by Terry Rawlings
- Distributed by Warner Bros
Release Date: 25th June 1982 (US) / 9th September 1982 (UK)