20 Things You Didn't Know About Blade Runner

17. The Film Was Originally Planned To Be Set In "San Angeles"

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One of Ridley Scott's initial ideas was to set Blade Runner in the fictional city of "San Angeles" - a gigantic population centre encompassing both the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco, and everything between the two. Owing to the film's dystopian nature, and the feel of a heavily overcrowded city, this would have made a lot of sense.

The idea was eventually scrapped for unknown reasons, but the very same concept appeared in the script for the 1994 Double Dragon adaptation, and was the setting for 1993's Demolition Man, in which Sylvester Stallone awakes from stasis in San Angeles in 2032 (this time a utopia where crime has been eradicated, however).

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