Tyrell employees in an attempt to find the replicants, prompting his replacement with Deckard.
James Hong
Hannibal Chew
an elderly Asian geneticist specializing in synthetic eyes.
Hy Pyke
Taffey Lewis
Pyke conveys Lewis’s sleaziness with ease and with one take; something almost unheard-of with Scott’s drive for perfection resulting at times in double-digit takes.
Production
One of filming locations is Bradbury Building
in Los Angeles, California.
Interest in adapting Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? developed shortly after its 1968 publication. According to Dick, director Martin Scorsese was interested in filming the novel, but never optioned it. Producer Herb Jaffe optioned it in the early 1970s, but Dick wasn’t impressed with the screenplay: “Robert Jaffe, who wrote the screenplay, flew