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    Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition: The Making of Blade Runner

    By Paul M. Sammon

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    The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner

    Ridley Scott’s 2007 “Final Cut” confirmed the international film cognoscenti’s judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition offers a deeper understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best.

    In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott purposefully used his creative genius to transform the work of science fiction’s most uncompromising author into a critical sensation and cult classic that would reinvent the genre. Sammon reveals how the making of the original Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry at the time it was made. This revised and expanded edition of Future Noir includes:

    • An overview of Blade Runner’s impact on moviemaking and its acknowledged significance in popular culture since the book’s original 1996 publication
    • An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007
    • A look at its long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049
    • The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner
    • Exclusive new interviews with Rutger Hauer and Sean Young

    A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art, illustrated with production photos and stills, Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern moviemaking, the business of Hollywood, and one of the greatest films of all time.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 14, 2017
    ISBN9780062852892
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    Paul M. Sammon

    Paul M. Sammon's distinctive career can best be described by the film industry expression "hyphenate." As a writer, Sammon has published numerous articles, short stories and books. His many film journalism pieces have seen print in The American Cinematographer, Cahiers du Cinema, The Los Angeles Times, Omni, Cinefex, and Cinefantastique. Sammon's fiction has appeared in Peter Straub's Ghosts (1995), and he recently edited both the 1994 "dead Elvis" anthology The King Is Dead plus the "no limits" anthologies Splatterpunks: Extreme Horror and Splatterpunks II: Over the Edge (1995). But Paul M. Sammon does not only write about movies--he works in them as well. He first entered the industry as a publicist in the late 1970s, before moving on as a second-unit director, special effects coordinator, still photographer, electronic press kit producer, and Vice President of Special Promotions. Some of the scores of motion pictures on which Sammon has labored include RoboCop, Platoon, Blue Velvet, Conan the Barbarian, and The Silence of the Lambs. By the late 1980s, Sammon was working in Japanese television, where he coproduced popular entertainment programs like Hello! Movies for the TV Asahi network. By the 1990s, Sammon had served as Computer Graphics Supervisor for RoboCop 2; he recently was Digital and Optical Effects Supervisor for 1995's XTRO: Watch the Skies. Despite this background, however, Sammon still likes nothing better than sitting down with a good movie. And Blade Runner remains one of his favorite films.

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    • 5/5
      This is an amazingly detailed book, it goes through everything related to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/Blade Runner. A combination of the first two editions Sammon has at one time or another had access to a number people involved from Phillip K. Dick to Harrison Ford which leads to some impressive coverage from page to studio, to filming, to editing, and to fan reaction.Free review copy.
    • 5/5
      Thorough and very enjoyable. Highly recommend for fans of movie. I would like to see more visuals (drawings of sets, storyboards) in a future edition.
    • 3/5
      I skipped past the interviews at the end as well as some of the info on the newer versions of the film. It's a pretty interesting book but there were some really weird glaring mistakes, like the fact Sammon comments on how Man in the High Castle was a smash hit on Netflix? Book does give you a good respect for all that goes into making a movie
    • 5/5
      Blade Runner is very much a movie that people either love or hate. Some consider it one of the greatest science fiction films ever made, and others find it to be a boring and confusing slog with pretty visuals. I'm definitely of the former sentiment. Blade Runner fans love the film obsessively. Paul Sammon's book is basically everything a fan would ever want to know about the making of the film.Technically the third edition of the book, Sammon has done further research and cleared up some long-standing misconceptions about the film's infamously troubled production. The revised version also contains some information on the (then upcoming) sequel, Blade Runner 2049.While the book is substantial, I found Sammon's writing to be clear and very quick and easy to read. The details are well laid out and you're given plenty of insight into how the film came to be from Philip K. Dick's original novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" The production was difficult, the critical response was lackluster, and the film has seen multiple changes and incarnations since it first hit theaters in 1982. Thankfully, since 2007, we now have the Final Cut of the film, as well as any of the other versions you may prefer. A good read for a film history buff.
    • 5/5
      Amazingly exhaustive and comprehensive behind the scenes look at one of the most influential movies ever made. A must read for fans and film buffs alike.