![]() The origins of Burroughs’ interest in working on a film treatment for Nourse’s book date back to December 1976. It is not just an odd chain of associations, but a weird backstory that tells us something about how the Burroughs virus spreads around.” While most people who have heard of Burroughs’ Blade Runner only know of it because of Ridley Scott’s film that took his version of Nourse’s title. Talking to The Quietus for this feature, Keele University Professor Oliver Harris, who wrote the introduction to the latest publication of Blade Runner: A Movie, said: “Like many people who have read Nourse’s 1970s novel, The Bladerunner, I only knew of it in the first place because of the Burroughs book which took its title. Nourse’s The Bladerunner, a pulp sci-fi novel from 1974. With a new edition of Blade Runner: A Movie recently published by Tangerine Press, we take a closer look to unravel the story behind the work by Burroughs and how it was inspired by Alan E. ![]() Dick novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? Less known perhaps, is why the original title of Dick’s book was not used for the movie, and how that came from a sci-fi novella published in 1979 by William S. ![]() ![]() Blade Runner may be best known as a film directed by Ridley Scott and loosely based on the Philip K. ![]()
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