Blade Runner

Blade Runner is a 1982 film directed by Ridley Scott.

Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah, it is a work of science fiction based on a screenplay, written by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, loosely based on the 1968 novel The Android Hunter (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?) by Philip K. Dick.

The feature film is set in 2019 in a dystopian Los Angeles, where replicants with human likenesses are routinely manufactured and used as a labor force in extra-terrestrial colonies. Replicants who escape or illegally return to Earth are hunted down and “retired from service,” that is, physically eliminated, by special agents called “blade runners.” The plot revolves around a group of escaped androids hiding out in Los Angeles and policeman Rick Deckard, now off duty but accepting one last mission to hunt them down.