Recommended reading - Blade Runner: The Inside Story, by Don Shay (2003):

Blade Runner: The Inside Story

By Don Shay.

Published by Titan Books.

Published 2003.

ISBN-10: 1840232102

ISBN-13: 9781840232103

Description:

In 1982, to coincide with Blade Runner's original release, Cinefex, the respected magazine devoted to movie design and special effects devoted an entire, extended issue to Ridley Scott's sci-fi masterpiece. That issue has been out of print since then, but in constant demand – copies now sell on the collector's market for over $100. Titan Books is proud to bring this classic back into print, in a remastered hardcover edition.

Described as 'the single most comprehensive examination of Blade Runner's special effects', this must-have book contains scores of images not available elsewhere, as well as authoritative text, containing in-depth, exclusive interviews with director Ridley Scott and the legendary designer Syd Mead.

Recommended reading - Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner, by Paul M. Sammon (2017):

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.

Shannon Hale, on writing:

Being a writer is a good, good thing.

- Shannon Hale.

On this day in music history - Cloudwalker & the Ascent, by Zero Ohms (2022):

Cloudwalker & the Ascent

Album by Zero Ohms,
released June 24, 2022.

Credits:

Cloudwalker and the Ascent; Unknownland; Vistas Beyond; Tum Gaon (ascending to higher places); Skybound (free from terrestrial bonds); Deep Sky Tones; Across the Seven Skies.

On this day in movie history - Deliver Us from Evil (2014):

Deliver Us from Evil

directed by Scott Derrickson,

written by Scott Derrickson and Paul Harris Boardman,

based on the book Beware the Night by Ralph Sarchie and Lisa Collier Cool,

was released in the United States on June 24, 2014.

Music by Christopher Young.

Cast:

Eric Bana, Edgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy, Dorian Missick, Sean Harris, Joel McHale, Mike Houston, Lulu Wilson, Olivia Horton, Scott Johnsen, Daniel Sauli, Antoinette LaVecchia, Aidan Gemme, Jenna Gavigan, Skylar Toddings, Sebastian La Cause, Steve Hamm, Sean Nelson, Mari-Ange Ramirez, Ben Horner, Tijuana Ricks, John Cariani, Robert Keiley, Blair Sams, Mark David Watson, Ben Livingston, Kevin Nagle, Oliver Wadsworth, Lolita Foster, Carmen Ortiz-Girdauskas, Victor Pagan, Carol Stanzione, Adam Kobylarz, Lauro David Chartrand-DelValle, John Auer, Joseph Basile, Sean Bennett, Lyndsey Bloise, José Báez, Ivan Cardona, John Cenatiempo, Mikhael DeVille, Dennis Jay Funny, Raiden Integra, Joseph Anthony Jerez, Umar Khan, Amra Mallassi, Valentina Rendón.

On this day in movie history - Wyatt Earp (1994):

Wyatt Earp

directed by Lawrence Kasdan,

written by Dan Gordon and Lawrence Kasdan,

was released in the United States on June 24, 1994.
Music by James Newton Howard.

Cast:

Kevin Costner, Ian Bohen, Dennis Quaid, Gene Hackman, David Andrews, Linden Ashby, Jim Caviezel, John Doe, Jeff Fahey, Joanna Going, Mark Harmon, Michael Madsen, Catherine O'Hara, Bill Pullman, Isabella Rossellini, Tom Sizemore, JoBeth Williams, Mare Winningham, James Gammon, Karen Grassle, Rex Linn, Gabriel Folse, Mackenzie Astin, Randle Mell, Adam Baldwin, Annabeth Gish, Lewis Smith, Betty Buckley, Alison Elliott, Téa Leoni, Martin Kove.

On this day in movie history - A Man in Uniform (1993):

A Man in Uniform

aka I Love a Man in Uniform and Man in Uniform,

directed and written by David Wellington,

was released in the United States on June 24, 1994.
Music by Ron Sures and The Tragically Hip.

Cast:

Tom McCamus, Brigitte Bako, Kevin Tighe, David Hemblen, Alex Karzis, Graham McPherson, Daniel MacIvor, Wendy Hopkins, Kirsten Kieferle, Tabitha St. Germain, Dana Brooks, Steve Ambrose, Michael Hogan, Mark Melymick, Cynthia Gillespie, Dick Grant, Victor Ertmanis, Rino Romano, Maureen McKay, Matt Cooke, Ken MacNeil, Mark Wilson, Matthew Ferguson, Albert Schultz, Richard Blackburn, Henry Czerny, Nancy Cser, Graham Losee, Von Flores, Jhene Erwin, Christopher Marren, Rafal Mickiewicz, J.D. Nicholsen.