notanotherbookreview

FUTURE NOIR : The Making of Blade Runner (Dey Street Books, HarperCollins) by Paul M. Sammon has a headline that's not  hyperbole-- The Fascinating Story Behind the Darkest, Most Influential Sci-fi Film Evermade.  Though 594 pages, I found this book obsessively interesting, though I'm not a  Blade Runner fan .  An art history and fan book, this revised and updated version of FUTURE NOIR delivers new interviews of  Sean Young and Rutger Hauer, and the longest interview Harrison Ford ever did on Blade Runner. The original interview with Ridley Scott is pretty good. The book also delivers talk about Ford's inexplicable antipathy for Young, Daryl Hannah's uncanny insight into being a replicant, the backgrounds of every actor, as well as the contributions of set, prop, costume designers and mechanics. It also gives a intriguing peek into Blade Runner 2049. The author, Paul Sammon, investigates the genesis of the film from Phil Dick's book and early scripts w...