Ridley Scott Ready To Direct New Version Of Seminal Sci-Fi Film 'Blade Runner'

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

I was hooked from then although Harrison Ford's narration in the original release just didn't work well.

That wa sintentionally done this way by Ford. Niether Ford nor Scott wanted that narration, or the happy end, but the company said American audience were too dumb to understand the story without the narration, and American audience would insist that there had to be a happy end, so they copied in a sequence from material that was left from Kubrick's "Shining" (the landscape flight at the end), and Ford did the narration as bad and demotivated as he could in the hope that it would be so terrible that they would cut it out again. Scott and Ford never wanted it with that narration.

In German it worked slightly better, due to the very well-matching German speaker for Harrison Ford. But still I think it was not needed to be done.