From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Mark Leeper wrote:   
   > June 25 is the fortieth anniversary of the initial release of    
   > Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER. Given that it is forty years old    
   > there will likely be SPOILERS! BLADE RUNNER is notorious for the    
   > number of versions of it. I will be discussing the first one I saw    
   > (the U.S. theatrical version). There is also an international    
   > theatrical version, a U.S. television version, the "Director's    
   > Cut", and the "Final Cut".    
      
   No mention of the Vangelis score?     
   Similar to the versions of the movie, at the year of its release the only   
   album available was an orchestra performing the music. In 1994, Vangelis   
   released a CD of his recordings which his liner notes said he couldn't do   
   before.  I see on the 25th    
   anniversary they released a three-CD set, pairing this with one of more   
   unreleased music and one of further inspiration Vangelis took from the film.    
   I know I bought several "snippet" releases of other soundtracks around this   
   time; news of the five-DVD    
   release of the movie must have blocked this from my sight.   
      
   > The film has been connected with Warner Brothers, which is    
   > interesting because Warner Brothers does not have a real history of    
   > major science fiction movies (THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS, THEM!    
   > and SOYLENT GREEN are probably the best known).    
      
   I thought BLADE RUNNER  was made by Orion Pictures.  I see it was a mistake,   
   probably prompted by a similarity in their fonts.   
   BLADE RUNNER was produced by the Ladd Company, and distributed by Warner   
   Bros.  This arrangement had contemporaries in  OUTLAND, LOOKER, the animated   
   fantasy TWICE UPON A TIME, and the space historical drama THE RIGHT STUFF.    
      
   I mentioned elsewhere a "THE THING In Character" podcast series.  The same   
   folks are in the midst of doing a "BLADE RUNNER In Character" series.   
   https://neozaz.com/category/podcasts/bric/   
   I don't find them as close a fit with the tone of this material as they were   
   with THE THING or MAD MAX, but interesting takes.   
      
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