10 Alternative Opening Movie Scenes You Never Saw
7. Deckard Kills A Replicant - Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's Blade Runner kicks off with a note-perfect opening sequence, offering up an eye-wateringly beautiful glimpse of Scott's 2019 Los Angeles, before we witness the Voight-Kampff test being administered to a replicant, Leon Kowalski (Brion James).
But an earlier version of Hampton Fancher's script, back when the film was still called "Dangerous Days," saw Deckard (Harrison Ford) confronting a replicant in its home.
Deckard shoots the "man" dead, and in a shock reveal for the audience, rips out his artificial lower-jaw to show that the man was a replicant. Deckard then snatches his replicant ID and flies away from the scene.
It's never been explained why Scott chose to re-work that evocative opening, though fortunately the scrapped scene ultimately served as the inspiration for Blade Runner 2049's own opening.
In the sequel, replicant K (Ryan Gosling) waits for a rogue replicant, Sapper Morton (Dave Bautista), to return home, and after a brief scene kills it.
Even precise details, such as the replicant cooking soup and being a farmer, were kept in the 2049 version of the scene, even if the context is fundamentally different than had it been included in the original.