Paul M. Sammon

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of 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. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Rediscover the groundbreaking magic of Blade Runner with this revised and updated edition of the classic guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative film—and published in anticipation of its sequel, Blade Runner 2049, premiering October 2017 and starring Ryan Gosling, Jared Leto, Robin Wright, and Harrison Ford. Ridley Scott’s 1992 "Director’s 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 the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction film ever made. Future Noir offers a deeper understanding of this cult 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, a commercial success, and a 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 publication An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007 An up-close look at its long-awaited sequel Blade Runner 2049 A 2007 interview with Harrison Ford now available to American readers Exclusive 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.

The Making of Blade Runner

Future Noir Revised & Updated Edition

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OS BASTIDORES DO MAIS SOMBRIO E INFLUENTE FILME DE FICÇÃO CIENTÍFICA DA HISTÓRIA. Blade Runner, baseado na brilhante e perturbadora obra-prima de Philip K. Dick, está entre os filmes de ficção científica mais visualmente densos, tematicamente desafiadores e influentes já feitos. Esta obra, considerada pelos leitores a mais importante e completa já escrita sobre o filme, oferece uma compreensão mais profunda deste fenômeno cinematográfico que é o que há de melhor na narrativa e no cinema visual. Aqui, o cineasta e cinéfilo Paul M. Sammon explora como Ridley Scott usou propositalmente seu gênio criativo para transformar a obra do autor mais intransigente da ficção científica em uma sensação crítica. Sammon revela como a produção do Blade Runner original foi uma odisseia de sete anos que testaria a resistência e a imaginação de escritores, produtores, magos de efeitos especiais e dos diretores de arte e cenógrafos mais inovadores da indústria na época em que foi lançado. Esta edição inclui: Uma visão geral do impacto de Blade Runner no cinema e seu significado reconhecido na cultura popular desde a publicação original do livro em 1996. Uma exploração da história de Blade Runner: The Final Cut e seu lançamento nos cinemas em 2007. Uma análise sobre sua tão esperada sequência, Blade Runner 2049 A entrevista mais longa que Harrison Ford já concedeu sobre Blade Runner. Novas entrevistas exclusivas com Rutger Hauer e Sean Young. Um olhar fascinante sobre a interface em constante mudança entre o comércio e a arte, ilustrado com fotos e stills de produção, Noir Futurista oferece uma visão reveladora e duradoura do cinema moderno, do negócio de Hollywood e de um dos maiores filmes de todos os tempos.

A fascinante história por trás do mais sombrio e influente filme de ficção científica já feito

Noir Futurista - Os bastidores de Blade Runner

The Shoot

Ridley Scott cut his cinematic teeth directing advertisements for TV - his most famous are the 'Hovis' adverts - quickly creating a distinctive visual style which he developed in his first full length movie The Duelists in 1977. It was two years later in 1979 that Scott made the big time with the stunning sci-fi realisation Alien which created a whole genre of sci-fi movies. There followed a list of successful and characteristically idiosyncratic movies from Blade Runner to Thelma and Louise.

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