from Metropolis when lining up Blade Runner’s miniature building shots.
Ridley Scott credits Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks and the French science fiction comic magazine Mtal Hurlant (Heavy Metal), to which the artist Moebius contributed, as stylistic mood sources. He also drew on the landscape of “Hong Kong on a very bad day” and the industrial landscape of his one-time home in the North East of England. Scott hired as his conceptual artist Syd Mead, who, like Scott, was influenced by Mtal Hurlant. Moebius was offered the opportunity to assist in the pre-production of Blade Runner, but he declined so that he could work on Ren Laloux’s animated film Les Matres du temps, a decision he later regretted. Lawrence G. Paull (production designer) and David Snyder (art director) realized Scott’s and Mead’s sketches. Douglas Trumbull and Richard Yuricich supervised the