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Future Noir: The Making
of Blade Runner,
by Paul M. Sammon (2017).
Revised & Updated
Edition.
ISBN-10: 0062699466
ISBN-13: 978-0062699466
Description from back
cover:
The ultimate guide to
Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner.
Ridley Scott’s 2007
“Final Cut” confirmed the international film cognoscenti’s judgment: Blade
Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction
masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most
visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films
ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper
understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual
filmmaking at its best.
In this intensive,
intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider
and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his
creative genius to transform the work of science fiction’s most uncompromising
author into a critical sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the
genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a
seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers,
producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and
set designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and
expanded edition of Future Noir includes:
An overview of Blade
Runner’s impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged significance in popular
culture since the book’s original 1996 publication.
An exploration of the
history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in
2007.
A look at its
long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049.
The longest interview
Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner.
Exclusive new interviews
with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young.
A
fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art,
illustrated with production photos and stills, Future Noir provides an
eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking, the business of Hollywood,
and one of the greatest films of all time.
