The Final Cut of Blade Runner

Ridley Scott has authorized a "final cut" of Blade Runner, which I have asked for for my birthday. Of course, it looks fantastic, but after reading a description of it, I don't understand how it differs from the "Director's Cut" released a few years ago in the box set?

Does anybody know what the difference is? In the last recut, he cut the voice over, the happy ending, and included the unicorn dream. What else is there?

Thanks in advance.

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To be perfectly honest, I have liked all the versions I have seen, even way back when I was a teenager and the film came out.

I was even okay with the "happy ending", although when I saw the director's cut without it, it seemed like a better film.

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I have always heard there was a very dark ending that
was rejected and reshot; I hope we get a chance to see
what was originally intended...
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The end of the "director's cut" seemed bleak to me, but maybe there is something darker. That would definitely be an addition to the last cut.

Not in the Final Cut. Unless enough people like the darker ending in Public previews and on the Director's Cut.But thats rare.

All I've seen is the director's cut.

I just caught something on this not too long ago. I can't promise you that it's not the "director's cut version" you're talking about, even though I think we have that. Anyway, they were talking about how in the original, Ford (and EVERYone, ultimately) is an android and how that is part of the ending.

So if the Director's Cut includes that, then I don't know. But if it doesn't? Then that's what it is. A completely alternate ending, nothing like what the original film version hands out.

...but Ridley Scott has made it clear on numerous occasions that Deckard is supposed to be a replicant. That's the point of the dream and the origami unicorn at the end...that Gaff leaves Deckard the origami as a way of telling him that he, Gaff, knows Deckard's (implanted) dream.

Here's an interview with producer Charles de Lauzirika about the new cut:

http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=interviews&id=11285

In terms of footage that didn't make it into the original...

That's in the new Final Cut? There's a lot of nuance. It's a lot of moments that kind of flesh things out or are closer to what was originally intended. For instance, the new unicorn dream sequence is the original cut of that sequence. It's not just Deckard at a piano, arbitrary dissolve to the unicorn, arbitrary dissolve back. It's him at the piano, to a close-up of him thinking and staring off into space, we go to the forest, the unicorn eventually runs in, he reacts to it. It's more in his head. It's not what they could do in '92, easy and cheap because that's all they had. We found the original footage, we found the original cut, conformed it with the negative, so it's more of a vision in his head. The sound design is totally different. It's the moment that Ridley wanted, not the moment he had to concede to back in '92. Things like that.

There are several new VFX tweaks and changes, enhancements that fix a lot of errors. Most notably, there's the scene where Batty dies and lets go of the dove, we go from dark, rainy, grungy we cut to blue sky, aluminum corrugated sci-fi tubes. So it's now a really gritty, grungy matte painting that's beautiful...it's like a hybrid of what would be done in '82 that was actually shot in 2019. It's really clean and elegant, we've got the same dove to lock onto through the cut.


More than that, though, there's also going to be a special briefcase collection's edition containing every single substate of the film: the US theatrical version, the home video/international version, the 1992 "Director's Cut", the legendary workprint version, and-as the interview above mentions-a whopping forty-seven minutes of deleted scenes cut together with an alternate version of the narration, so it's almost like a sixth version of the film. And lots of nerdy souvenir crap. I'm toying with the idea of buying it and taking a week off work to have my way with it...

http://tinyurl.com/3bu8s9

what was used in the Director's Cut that was commented on positively.

I guess it was pretty obvious in the original that it was a double running away from Deckard just before he "retires" her. Scott shot new footage with Joanna Cassidy (who still looks great, by the way), and that footage is now in the film.

Also, I heard that the dove at the end flies off into the night sky, not a blue daytime sky.

Those are two tweaks I heard about.

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