Posted by Jay G. on 05/30/06 02:48

On Mon, 29 May 2006 20:01:19 GMT, Jeff Rife wrote:
>
> Hadn't he said before that his quick-and-dirty "Director's Cut" would be
> to have the European version (with the violence) with no happy ending
> and fewer voiceovers (but not completely eliminated), and that was the
> primary reason he hated the supposed "Director's Cut"...because it wasn't
> his *and* he really wouldn't have had to take much time to do something
> that he considered a lot better.

No, he actually worked on the "Director's Cut," but went over deadline. It
took a considerable amount of time to get to the compromised version that
was eventually released.

> ISTR that he also said that if he really had his way he'd get Harrison
> Ford to re-record the voiceovers with some actual voice acting skills,
> instead of just reading a script.

Scott had actually recorded two separate sessions with Ford based on two
different voice-over scripts already before the production company shut
Scott out and wrote another voice-over script that they recorded with Ford
and put on the theatrical version of the film.

A few years ago I wrote a fairly lengthy post about the initial production
and subsequent re-edits of Blade Runner, based off of my reading of the
excellent book 'Future Noir.' The book answers every question you ever had
about Blade Runner, but my summary may suffice for some:

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.video.dvd/msg/7e764b76b4e48a82

-Jay

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