Blade Runner (1982) Movie script (Copy) Draft December 22th, 1980 Complete and has 137 pages Directed by Ridley Scott Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick "Man has made his match... now it's his problem" Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young and Edward James Olmos, it is an adaptation of Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, where synthetic humans known as replicants have been bioengineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escape back to Earth, burned-out agent Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to track them down. Will be packaged and shipped with great care.