10 Great Movies Everybody HATED Making

Blade Runner is a cinematic sci-fi monolith beyond compare, and its wonderfully gloomy mood might be informed in part by the constant behind-the-scenes discord during shooting.

For starters, star Harrison Ford didn't work well with either co-star Sean Young or director Ridley Scott. Ford felt that Young's lack of experience was slowing production, and he also argued intensely with Scott over whether or not his character Deckard was a replicant.

Scott also didn't endear himself much to the film's cast or crew: he regularly demanded upwards of a dozen takes for seemingly insignificant camera setups, enough that Warner Bros. almost intervened and had him replaced.

Scott also pissed off the production's American crew members after claiming in an interview that British film crews worked harder, prompting American makeup supervisor Marvin G. Westmore to create T-shirts mocking Scott's claim.

Then there's late legendary cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth, who had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease the year before shooting started, and his condition debilitated enough that he was working from a wheelchair by shoot's end.

And on top of all this, everyone's moods were worsened by the bulk of the film being shot at night, while the continual dousing of fake rain made everyone soggy and tired.

Yet Blade Runner's legacy as an all-timer in its genre endures four decades on, and we even got an arguably superior sequel out of it, too, with 2017's Blade Runner 2049.