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Rebecca Pahle<\/b> and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong> present 10 Fascinating Facts About Blade Runner<\/em><\/a><\/strong>. Here are three of my favorites…<\/p>\n 3. DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALMOST PLAYED DECKARD.<\/strong> Hoffman, Scott, Fancher, producer Michael Deeley, and production executive Katherine Haber worked on the film for months, workshopping Deckard\u2019s character and shifting the script in a more \u201csocially conscious\u201d (Scott\u2019s words) direction until Hoffman abruptly dropped out in October of 1980. \u201cFrankly,\u201d Scott later said, \u201cI think it might have been something as simple as money.\u201d<\/p>\n 8. PHILIP K. DICK REFUSED TO DO A NOVELIZATION.<\/strong> 10. IT\u2019S CURSED.<\/strong> Rebecca Pahle and Mental_Floss present 10 Fascinating Facts About Blade Runner. Here are three of my favorites… 3. DUSTIN HOFFMAN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13301,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13299\/revisions\/13301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nAt various times during development, Blade Runner<\/em>\u2019s original screenwriter, Hampton Fancher, pictured Robert Mitchum, Christopher Walken, and Tommy Lee Jones as Rick Deckard. Ridley Scott wanted to go in a completely different direction by casting Dustin Hoffman, whom he later acknowledged didn\u2019t really fit the type. \u201cI figured, unlikely though he may be in terms of his physical size as a sci-fi hero, as an actor Hoffman could do anything,\u201d explained Scott. \u201cTherefore, it really didn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nDick was approached about penning a Blade Runner<\/em> novelization, for which he would get a cut of the film\u2019s merchandising rights. \u201cBut they required a suppression of the original novel,\u201d Dick explained, \u201cin favor of the commercialized novelization based on the screenplay,\u201d so he refused. \u201cBlade Runner<\/em>\u2019s people were putting tremendous pressure on us to do the novelization\u2014or to allow someone else to come in and do it, like Alan Dean Foster. But we felt that the original was a good novel. And also, I did not want to write what I call the \u2018El Cheapo\u2019 novelization.\u201d At one point, Blade Runner<\/em>\u2019s team threatened to refuse Dick and his publishers access to the film\u2019s logo or stills (essentially, subsequent printings would not be able to cite the book as the inspiration for Blade Runner<\/em>), but they eventually backed down.<\/p>\n
\nIt might not be quite as hardcore-cursed as Poltergeist<\/em> or The Omen<\/em>, but Blade Runner<\/em> has a curse of its own \u2026 on the businesses whose logos appear in the film. Atari, Pan Am, RCA, Cuisinart, and Bell Phones all suffered severe business problems in the years shortly afterBlade Runner<\/em>\u2019s release, as did Coca-Cola, whose 1985 \u201cNew Coke\u201d experiment was less than successful. Members of the Blade Runner<\/em> production team refer to this as the \u201cproduct-placement Blade Runner <\/em>curse.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"