I'm a huge Blade Runner fan, anyway some of you might find this very cool. The only DVD in release right now is a terrible transfer.
Blade Runner Final Cut Due
Warner Home Video will issue a new remastered director's cut of the classic SF movie Blade Runner in September now that it has cleared up rights issues, followed by a theatrical release of a version promised to be truly director Ridley Scott's final cut, Variety reported. Warner's rights to Blade Runner lapsed a year ago, but the studio has since negotiated a long-term license.
The movie has a troubled history. When Scott ran over budget, completion bond guarantors took control of it and made substantial changes before its 1982 theatrical release, adding a voice-over and a happy ending. That version was replaced by the much better-received director's cut in 1992, but Scott has long been unhappy with it, complaining that he was rushed and unable to give it proper attention.
Scott started working on the final cut version in 2000, but that project was shelved by Warner soon after, apparently because the studio couldn't come to terms with Jerry Perenchio over rights issues.
The restored "director's cut" will debut on home video in September and will remain on sale for only four months, after which time it will be placed on moratorium. Blade Runner: Final Cut will arrive in 2007 for a limited 25th-anniversary theatrical run, followed by a special-edition DVD with the three previous versions offered as alternate viewing. Besides the original theatrical version and director's cut, the expanded international theatrical cut will be included. The set will also contain additional bonus materials.
The new opening Titles Sequence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT590N74r5o
Qyn
Wed, 08/01/2007 - 9:49amWhoa, that's awesome! I'll definitely be picking up a copy.
Fap
Wed, 08/01/2007 - 10:22amYES
<3 this movie
There needs to be more cyberpunk films. The best one I've seen in a long time was Children Of Men. It just sucks that they can't seem to get that Bladerunner style for Gibson stories for some reason. If Ridley Scott directed Neuromancer or Idoru I think I would shit myself, but looking at what they did to Jonny Pneumonic I don't think a studio would take that kind of a risk again.
Qyn
Wed, 08/01/2007 - 11:19amOh man, yea some well done Gibson films would be choice.
yori
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 8:42amwow, that is so awesome...<3 blade runner and <3 VANGELIS
also i agree about not having enough cyberpunk...i pretty much get all my cyberpunk doses through manga now as thats the only real place its been kept alive
Qyn
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 8:57amYou forgot to mention the cyborg arms you had installed.
Fap
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 8:59amThere's always GURPS : )
Narrative
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 10:25amI should so bust my budget and get Shadowrun books to run a game.
Fap
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 1:55pmon Sunday my buddies and i started a GURPS game using hard science tech level high 8 and high tech level bio, so you have slug-throwing guns and ugly space crafts inhabited by genetically modified humans. i made a pilot who's father modified him to make him the perfect army officer, but then he got kicked out of military academy for being a letcherous asshole. my buddy make a short, bald albino ratchet monkey who's fairly genious. we almost named ourselves "Hans Olo" and "Buchaka" but the guy running the game wouldn't let us hehe.
We regularly just grab like 4 random GURPS books then make a game on the ones we came up with. I love the chance of do a game involving horses and heraldry and lazer cannons.
Sumul
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 2:42pmHaha!
Qyn
Thu, 08/02/2007 - 4:08pmOLO!