Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

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Certain things were dear to him

in that story...

...mostly around, you know, what is

human, and what makes us human.

It was the Hampton Fancher script...

...which Phil was skeptical of,

because it did include a voice-over.

The very first draft that he did

was much smaller in scale...

...than anything

that's been on the Internet...

...or anything

that has been talked about.

It was a...

Probably maybe a low-budget...

...maybe a one-room

kind of motion picture.

And it all took place mostly

in apartments, a few street scenes...

...and at the very end.

Rachael kills herself.

This was a small movie.

That's how I wanna do it, It's rooms.

You know, a strange movie,

but it's, you know, a face-to-face movie.

People are talking.

And I had this dream of actors...

You know, like the right kind of actors.

The right kind of actors' director.

Hampton saw the novel as reflecting

a lot of real-world current concerns.

And strangely, one of the largest

motivating factors...

...was the ecological concern

that is in the original novel.

The fact that the Earth is slowly falling

apart because of these world wars...

...and because of these biological

plagues and that type of thing.

And, of course, those are all analogues

for pollution and for overpopulation.

The intellectual aspects

of the screenplay...

...were taken from my response to

the death of animal life on this planet...

...and what that meant. That's probably

the thing that saw me through it...

...the first draft,

was I had a passion about that...

...so my affection for the project

was consistent.

Finally, when I was

really looking for something...

...Brian popped back in again

with another script.

The way he put it was he told me that

he'd got several studios interested...

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