18 Mind-Blowing Facts About Blade Runner
10. Philip K. Dick Liked The Movie … Eventually
Considering the differences between novel and film it’s probably
not too surprising to find out that Philip K. Dick despised Blade Runner’s
early scripts, denouncing the first version written by Robert Jaffe as a comedy
spoof of his work and a later script by Hampton Fancher as “Philip Marlowe
meets the Stepford Wives”.
Dick eventually came around after David Webb Peoples made extensive rewrites and was apparently very approving of Blade Runner’s casting, calling Rutger Hauer "the perfect Batty – cold, Aryan, flawless" and Harrison Ford “more Deckard than I had imagined”.
Sadly, Dick died just a few months before Blade Runner’s release and never got to see the final product. He did view around twenty minutes worth of clips before his death however and was pleased with what he saw, saying “It was my own interior world. They caught it perfectly”.