Ridley Scott credits Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks and the French science fiction comics magazine Métal Hurlant, to which the artist Jean "Moebius" Giraud contributed, as stylistic mood sources. Bhain sé leas freisin as tírdhreach "Hong Kong on a very bad day" agus as tírdhreach tionsclaíoch a theach uair amháin i dtuaisceart Shasana. Tá stíl amhairc an scannáin tionchar ag obair an ailtire futurist Iodálach Antonio Sant'Elia. Scott d'fhostaigh Syd Mead mar a ealaíontóir coincheapa; cosúil le Scott, bhí tionchar aige ar Métal Hurlant.
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