Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)

The definitive three-and-a-half hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic Blade Runner (1982), culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.

Director:

Charles de Lauzirika

Stars:

Daryl Hannah, Michael Deeley, Harrison Ford

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Daryl Hannah	...	Herself
Michael Deeley	...	Himself
Harrison Ford	...	Himself
Joanna Cassidy	...	Herself
Rutger Hauer	...	Himself
Douglas Trumbull	...	Himself
Hampton Fancher	...	Himself
Sean Young	...	Herself
Syd Mead	...	Himself
Steven Poster	...	Himself (as Steven B. Poster)
Edward James Olmos	...	Himself
Ridley Scott	...	Himself
Paul Sammon	...	Himself (as Paul M. Sammon)
Isa Dick Hackett	...	Herself, Philip K. Dick's daughter
Tim Powers	...	Himself, author of 'The Anubis Gates'

Storyline

The definitive three-and-a-half hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic Blade Runner (1982), culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.

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Plot Keywords:

hare krishna | making of | filmmaking | behind the scenes | 

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Genres:

Documentary

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 December 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Dangerous Days

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Blade Runner Partnership,Lauzirika Motion Picture Company,Warner Home Video

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min (TV) (2008)

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

At 1m 31sec, Harrison Ford is in a car and there's no room for a clapper board. He claps his hands to camera instead. Going through this frame by frame, when his hands meet someone has hand drawn a big green cross over the exact frame to mark the point.

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Quotes

Hampton Fancher: [about the unicorn dream sequence] And my interpretation had nothing to with 'oh, that shows that Deckard's a replicant'. I don't think anything should show that Deckard's a replicant. If you think that, you're already wrong.

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Connections

References Deja Vu (2006)

User Reviews

Full of interesting tidbits

For people who have never understood the backstage of Hollywood movies, this documentary is a treasure trove. It lasts forever, more than three hours, and discusses everything from Ridley's tyrannical direction and attention to detail to the way the art department designed vehicles and architecture. On the other hand all that stuff can get boring after a while.

What is sure is that the film contains a lot of information that could be of interest to film fans, amateur filmmakers and probably even professionals. Even if you have enough of that crappy overpraising that you see when people in showbiz talk about each other, it is not too much and some of them are downright honest about things: what they liked, what they hated, etc. Harrison Ford, which everyone praised as a very technical, very professional actor, actually hated working for the movie and was only happy when close to completion.

Also the financial underworkings of the film are very interestingly exposed. You cannot bring your own people because of unions, you spend obscene amounts of money for things that might seem trivial, like choosing the perfect mug to sit on the table in a scene from 100 different models or filming nature scenes, etc. It explains a little why movies like these need tens and hundreds of million of dollars to make and why, even with stupid stories and bad direction or production, films still feel professional because of the army of trained technicians that take care of every minute aspect.

All in all a very instructive documentary, kind of long. Don't expect a lot of juicy, funny stories either. It feels more like a log of the production of Blade Runner, than an attempt at a particular perspective or viewpoint. Useful, interesting, not very engaging, though.