Hong Kong Blade Runner
Posted by SpikeSep 30
Ridley Scott’s new “final cut” of Blade Runner is screening in New York and getting lots of press attention in advance of the 5 DVD set coming out in December. Here’s an interesting quote from an interview in the NY Times:
He created this world from what he saw around him. “I was spending a lot of time in New York,” he said. “The city back then seemed to be dismantling itself. It was marginally out of control. I’d also shot some commercials in Hong Kong. This was before the skyscrapers. The streets seemed medieval. There were 4,000 junks in the harbor, and the harbor was filthy. You wouldn’t want to fall in; you’d never get out alive. I wanted to film ‘Blade Runner’ in Hong Kong, but couldn’t afford to.”
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