Future Noir, Paul M. Sammon
Future Noir, Paul M. Sammon
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Future Noir
The Making of Blade Runner

Author: Paul M. Sammon

Narrator: Todd McLaren

Unabridged: 25 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/09/2024


Synopsis

Ridley Scott's 1992 "Director's Cut" confirmed the international film cognoscenti's judgment: Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction film ever made.

In this intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, film insider and cinephile Paul M. Sammon explores how Ridley Scott 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. This edition of Future Noir includes:

● An overview of Blade Runner's impact on movie making and its acknowledged significance in popular culture since the book's original publication

● An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut

● An up-close look at its long-awaited sequel Blade Runner 2049

A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and art, Future Noir provides an eye-opening and enduring look at modern movie making, the business of Hollywood, and one of the greatest films of all time.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on March 02, 2025

The future caught up with me -- or I caught up with it -- in November of 2019. As a 21-year-old college senior, I had seen Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in June of 1982, at an overcrowded, now-long-gone little theatre multiplex in Washington, D.C. -- and at that time, I couldn't imagine living all the......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on March 14, 2022

This massive book was a bit of a roller-coaster with all it's ups and downs. The ups of course it being about the making of Blade Runner and all the details. The downs being the long-windedness, the repetition and all the details... Starting from the top, this book lets you know most of all there is......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 17, 2018

A superb book about a classic film. Paul M Sammon has been fortunate enough to to put his wealth of knowledge on Blade Runner into print. From being on the set while the film was being made in the early 1980s, right up to conducting new interviews in 2017, Sammon covers it all. This is not really a bo......more

Goodreads review by C.T. on December 16, 2017

Do you like Blade Runner? I mean, do you REALLY like Blade Runner? Well, I do REALLY-REALLY like Blade Runner. I've watched the movie dozens of times and it's really one of those films which exists up there in my head space with Alien and Star Wars that influence everything from my personal life to......more