Future Noir
Subtitle: The Making of Blade Runner
By: Paul M. Sammon.
Edition: First edition
Publisher: HarperPrism
Published: May 23, 1996
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Trade paperback
Number of pages: 460
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: Blade runner (Motion picture)
First sentence: It's only fitting that a book examining the history of one of the most compulsively detailed motion pictures ever made should spring from one writer's equally compulsive obsession with that picture.
Description: The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made.

Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of 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. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamorous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-435).
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First printing: July 1996
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