which producer Alan Ladd, Jr. has said, “Harrison wouldn’t speak to Ridley and Ridley wouldn’t speak to Harrison. By the end of the shoot Ford was ‘ready to kill Ridley’, said one colleague. He really would have taken him on if he hadn’t been talked out of it.” Future Noir has short cast biographies and quotations about their experiences in making Blade Runner, as well as many photographs of the film’s production, and preliminary sketches. The cast chapter was deleted from the first edition; it is available online. A second edition of Future Noir was published in 2007.
Soundtrack
Main article: Blade Runner (soundtrack)
The Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis is a dark melodic combination of classic composition and futuristic synthesizers which mirrors the film-noir retro-future envisioned by Ridley Scott. Vangelis, fresh from his Academy Award winning score