{"id":33159,"date":"2025-07-30T19:16:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33159\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:16:16","slug":"harrison-ford-reveals-his-preferred-version-of-blade-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33159\/","title":{"rendered":"Harrison Ford Reveals His Preferred Version of ‘Blade Runner’"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the nerdiest conversations two sci-fi fans can have<\/a> is about the merits of the different versions of<\/a> Blade Runner. Which is best? What does one decision mean? How about another?<\/a> And one person you\u2019d never expect to weigh in on that is Harrison Ford himself.<\/p>\n

Ford is, of course, the star of Blade Runner along with one or two other major sci-fi films.<\/a> Even so, he\u2019s not really a sci-fi nerd by any stretch of the imagination. However, in a new interview, he did offer a very specific answer to the question of which version<\/a> of Blade Runner he likes best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like any cut without the voiceover,\u201d Ford told Variety<\/a>. \u201cWhen we first saw the film in script form, it had a narration. I felt strongly that the narration was not right for the film\u2014I played a detective, and I really talked\u00a0about the detective part of my job, but I didn\u2019t appear to be\u00a0doing it. So Ridley, the screenwriter, a producer, and I spent three weeks at my dining room table taking the information that was in the voice-overs and making it part of the scene experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then at the end of the film, Warner Bros. said, \u2018What the hell is going on here? I don\u2019t understand this at all. Explain it.\u2019 And the voice-over came back,\u201d Ford continued. \u201cI did the voiceover about six times, and nobody was ever happy with it. So I was glad that the film was finally released without it, which I think encourages the audience to be present in the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford is right on the money here. Basically, before it was released in theaters, studio executives made Scott and his team tweak it, adding the explanatory voiceover as well as a new ending. The hope was to make it more accessible to general audiences. But, it backfired and undercut some of the intentions of the movie. That\u2019s one of several reasons why the film didn\u2019t find success upon original release.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 10 years, and through a few fun twists of fate<\/a>, a \u201cDirector\u2019s Cut\u201d of the film found its way to theaters and home video. It made a few significant changes, most pointedly removing the voiceover and leaving the ending more ambiguous, which added to the experience. Then, 15 years after that, Scott released a new \u201cFinal Cut,\u201d which made several other smaller changes and is the only version of the film Ridley Scott had absolute control over.<\/p>\n

That can be confusing to some, but only one thing matters. Harrison Ford prefers the later versions. That\u2019s the movie he signed up to make, and that\u2019s why he decided to revisit the role 10 years after the Final Cut with Blade Runner 2049. \u201cI enjoyed the experience of making the second Blade Runner\u2014to be fair, even more than I did the first one, because it wasn\u2019t raining and it wasn\u2019t night all the time,\u201d Ford said.<\/p>\n

Read more from Ford over at Variety<\/a>. And debate away on if he\u2019s right or not in the comments below.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the nerdiest conversations two sci-fi fans can have is about the merits of the different versions…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,30632,134,30633,344],"class_list":{"0":"post-33159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-blade-runner","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-harrison-ford","13":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}