A haunting, eerily prophetic mixture of science fiction and film noir, director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner boasts one of the most astonishingly designed futures ever put on film – a dark, decaying Los Angeles circa 2019. Blade Runner is based on the novel “Do androids dream of electric sheep?” by science fiction master Philip K. Dick. It stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a onetime “blade runner” (or sanctioned assassin). Blade Runner begins with the cynical, world-weary Deckard being called out of retirement to stop four “replicants” – genetically altered humans with superior stenght and intellects who are used as slave labor on “Off-world” colonies. These homicidal androids have returned to Earth for a murderous killing spree; their leader is Roy Batty, a dangerous “combat model” whose ultimate target is Eldon Tyrell, owner of the same corporation that created Roy.