Synopsis

In a rain-soaked Los Angeles of 2019, retired police officer Rick Deckard is forced back into service to track down four genetically engineered replicants who have returned to Earth. As he investigates their creator, encounters a mysterious replicant named Rachael, and confronts the fugitives' desperate search for longer lives, Deckard's understanding of humanity and his own identity begins to unravel.

Factoids & Trivia

• Released theatrically in 1992, the Director's Cut was created for the film's 10th anniversary after unauthorized screenings of a workprint generated renewed interest in the movie.

• The version removes Deckard's explanatory voice-over narration and the studio-imposed optimistic ending, replacing the original conclusion with a more ambiguous departure.

• A brief unicorn dream sequence was added. Its connection to an origami unicorn later became one of the film's most discussed clues concerning Deckard's identity.

• Despite its title, this was not assembled entirely by Ridley Scott. Film preservationist Michael Arick handled much of the reconstruction while Scott supplied extensive guidance and approval.

• The unicorn footage was shot for Blade Runner during additional photography. It was not repurposed material from Scott's later fantasy film Legend.

• The 1992 release runs approximately 116 minutes and is different from Blade Runner: The Final Cut, released in 2007 as a more extensively supervised restoration and revision.

• The Director's Cut helped solidify Blade Runner's reputation as a landmark of science fiction cinema, even though Scott later regarded the 2007 Final Cut as a closer realization of his intentions.