Fig Leaf Midichlorians

Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by mike

When director Ridley Scott was shooting Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick had a feverish, paranoid vision of the filming. He imagined himself seizing leading man Harrison Ford by the throat and “battering him against the wall” … He imagined security guards netting him with a blanket and forcing Thorazine on him as he screamed, “You’ve destroyed my book!” … New Line executives likely believe they were doing Pullman no great disservice by stripping out his theology and replacing it with some vague derivative of the Force … At the festival, the studio had delivered a sheet of talking points to the hotel room of at least one cast member, Sam Elliott, who plays a Texas aeronaut in the film. According to Elliott, the talking points instructed that if the question of Pullman’s religious views came up, the actors should just “avoid it and play stupid.”

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Tags: Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Harrison Ford, His Dark Materials, Philip K Dick, Philip Pullman, Ridley Scott, Sam Elliott, The Golden Compass // Add Comment »

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