<P> Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott , written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples , and starring Harrison Ford , Rutger Hauer , Sean Young , and Edward James Olmos . It is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick 's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( 1968 ) . The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019 , in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off - world colonies . When a fugitive group of replicants led by Roy Batty ( Hauer ) escapes back to Earth , burnt - out cop Rick Deckard ( Ford ) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down . </P>
<P> Blade Runner is a 1982 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott , written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples , and starring Harrison Ford , Rutger Hauer , Sean Young , and Edward James Olmos . It is a loose adaptation of Philip K. Dick 's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ? ( 1968 ) . The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019 , in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off - world colonies . When a fugitive group of replicants led by Roy Batty ( Hauer ) escapes back to Earth , burnt - out cop Rick Deckard ( Ford ) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down . </P>
when was the first blade runner movie made
when was the first blade runner movie made
1982
1982