Blade Runner Origins #5
Blade Runner Origins #5

Author: K. Perkins

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2021-08-18

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1787738221

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Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. Now, on Earth, the Nexus 4 Replicants have been adapted for societal elites to own for industry and service work. But Tyrell continues to experiment with further enhancements. Because progress stops for no man. Recently, the dangerous escaped Nexus5 has appeared in The Slums – Det. Cal Moreaux’s old neighborhood. Tyrell Corp executive Ilora Stahl shot and killed Effie, a junior bioengineer, for withholding information on the Nexus 5 program. In an attempt to control Cal, Ilora threatened to burn down The Slums in one week if Cal didn’t recover the rogue Replicant. Fully understanding how deep the rot goes, Cal left the force in protest over the corrupt relationship between the LAPD and the Tyrell Corporation. Now a rogue agent himself, but still tethered to the Nexus 5 mission, Cal has requested the help of Asa, a Replicant with the simulated consciousness of senior bioengineer Dr. Lydia Kine, because time on Ilora’s threat is running out…

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Author: Paul M. Sammon

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1996-05-01

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0061053147

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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.

Blade Runner Origins #8
Blade Runner Origins #8

Author: K Perkins

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2021-11-17

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1787738256

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Early in the 21st century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. Now, on Earth, the Nexus 4 Replicants have been adapted for societal elites to own for industry and service work. But, Tyrell continues to experiment with further enhancements – because progress stops for no man. After the apparent suicide of Dr. Lydia Kine – a Tyrell Corporation bioengineer – was determined to be a murder committed by a Replicant, LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux tracked the presumed killer: a Nexus 5 prototype. However, Cal later discovered that Kine had successfully transferred her psyche into the body of a Replicant called Asa. The Nexus 5 has been “awakening” some Replicants, causing them to leave their positions of servitude in pursuit of autonomy. Cal has followed this trail of rebellion to Sector-6b, the slums of Los Angeles, once his home, where he learned the true identity of the escaped Nexus 5… his sister: Nia Moreaux. Desperate to atone for the wrongs he committed as Dr. Kine, Asa has followed one of these “awakened” Replicants, a murderous Nexus 4, to the slums in order to dispatch it. In his search for Nia, who is also looking for the deranged Nexus 4, Cal has arrived here too. Unfortunately for them all, Ilora Stahl is right on their tail…

Blade Runner 2
Blade Runner 2

Author: K. W. Jeter

Publisher: Spectra

Published: 2000-10-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0553762672

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In 1982 the brilliant science fiction movie Blade Runner was released, and a phenomenon was born. Set in the steel-and-microchip jungle of twenty-first century Los Angeles, this masterpiece re-created our vision of the future, telling the story of Rick Deckard, a ‘blade runner’ who tracks down and executes renegade androids. Now, for the millions of fans of the movie, as well as those coming to the saga for the first time, K. W. Jeter’s stylish and sophisticated new novel reenters that seedy, high-tech world and opens a new chapter of thrilling, nonstop, futuristic suspense. This time Deckard himself becomes both hunter and hunted in a race to prove his own humanity by tracking down the most elusive and dangerous android of all . . .

Blade Runner 2029 #1
Blade Runner 2029 #1

Author: Michael Green

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2020-12-16

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1787733351

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Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution to the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-World as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. Replicants who escaped and returned to Earth were hunted by special police squads – Blade Runner Units – with orders to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. In 2022, radical elements with the Replicant Underground detonate an EMP device over Los Angeles, destroying Tyrell Corporation’s Nexus databases, and making it easier for escaped Replicants to resettle on Earth. Soon, all Replicants are banned and the Tyrell Corporation declares bankruptcy. In 2027, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, a former Blade Runner rejoined the department to hunt down fugitive Replicants. Her superiors are unaware that her loyalties are divided.

Future Noir
Future Noir

Author: Paul M. Sammon

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2017-11-14

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0062852892

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Updated edition: The ultimate guide to Ridley Scott’s transformative sci-fi classic Blade Runner, with photos, new cast interviews, and more. Based on Philip K. Dick’s brilliant and troubling science fiction masterpiece Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner is among the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential science fiction films ever made. Future Noir offers a deeper understanding of this cinematic phenomenon that is storytelling and visual filmmaking at its best. In an intensive, intimate, and anything-but-glamorous behind-the-scenes account, 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 and 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 popular culture An exploration of the history of Blade Runner: The Final Cut and its theatrical release in 2007 A look at its long-awaited sequel, Blade Runner 2049 The longest interview Harrison Ford has ever granted about Blade Runner Exclusive new 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.

Blade Runner
Blade Runner

Author: William S. Burroughs

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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In this futuristic screenplay vision of a strife-and-disease-plagued America in 1999, Burroughs finds the cure for a decaying civilization in the medicine practiced by underground physicians and surgeons. These heroic healers, in turn, are aided by 'blade runners, ' teenagers who smuggle banned surgical instruments past the watchful eyes of fascistic police. The novel-cum-screenplay follows one of these runners during the course of a race riot and the transfer of instruments between embattled doctors. Above the drama in the streets of New York is a world 'taken over by hang-glider and autogyro gangs, mountaineers and steeplejacks. A sky boy steps off his penthouse into a parachute on guide wires that drop him to a street-level landing ... Meanwhile, released animals and reptiles from the zoo and freed fish from the aquarium have control of the rovers and subways. The prose flashes with Burrough's own brand of outrageousness and fantasy.

Blade Runner 2039 #5
Blade Runner 2039 #5

Author: Mike Johnson

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2023-07-26

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1787740501

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Replicants are bioengineered humans, once designed by the Tyrell Corporation for use Off-world. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture was prohibited, and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. Niander Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of Replicants who obey. A Replicant underground survives, led by the former combat model Freysa and her human partner Aahna Ashina, known as Ash, formerly a Blade Runner. Twenty years ago, in 2019, Ash spared the Replicant Isobel Selwyn, a Replicant replica of industrialist Alexander Selwyn’s wife. Together with Alexander’s human daughter, Cleo, Isobel escaped to the off-world colonies. Now Isobel has gone missing, rumored to be back on Earth and Cleo has returned to find her. Searching for the late Alexander Selwyn’s research into Replicant physiology Niander Wallace has sent his creation Luv, the first Replicant Blade Runner, to hunt down both Cleo and Isobel. Believing that Isobel holds the secret to Replicant fertility, Wallace has ordered Luv to capture the girl at any cost and to kill anyone who comes into contact with her. Meanwhile, Ash has been given a computer disc by Alexander’s former Replicant bodyguard Hythe, which Ash discovers contains the information Wallace is looking for. Cleo sought out Ash, however, Luv tracked them both down before Ash could help her find Isobel. Ash gave Luv a blank disc claiming it was what Wallace was after before escaping in a Spinner and heading off to join Freysa. Thwarted, Luv returned to Wallace who introduced her to a Replicant created from the DNA of Ash and codenamed Rash…

Blade Runner: Origins Volume 3: Burning
Blade Runner: Origins Volume 3: Burning

Author: K. Perkins

Publisher: Titan Comics

Published: 2022-09-14

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 1787739082

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Los Angeles, 2009. Tyrell Corp executive Ilora Stahl has instigated a brutal purge of LA’s Sector 6-B, in an attempt to kill a rogue Nexus 5 prototype who is responsible for triggering an uprising of Nexus 4 Replicants. Now, with the sector ablaze, LAPD detective Cal Moreaux has joined forces with a former Tyrell Corp scientist, and a band of Replicant rebels and human sympathizers to stop the prototype and save the streets he and his sister once called home. Collects Blade Runner: Origins #9-12. “A series that perfectly captures the spirit of the Blade Runner universe.” – Comic Book Resources