Yes, Rick Deckard is a replicant. Blade Runner director Ridley Scott recently and finally ended the speculation over his android-hunting cop. "If you don't get it, you're a moron," he says in a special features interview in "Blade Runner: Ultimate Collector's Edition" DVD set.
Well, yes, Scott did say that once before as well - in 2000 - but Harrison Ford refuted it and took issue with Scott. ""We had agreed that he definitely was NOT a replicant," Ford said.
It's been a topic of fierce debate for two decades. Scott and Ford stated that Deckard was meant to be a replicant. In Details magazine (US) October 1992 Ford says:
"Blade Runner was not one of my favorite films. I tangled with Ridley. The biggest problem was that at the end, he wanted the audience to find out that Deckard was a replicant. I fought that
because I felt the audience needed somebody to cheer for."
And for the record, Deckard was human in Philip K. Dick's Novel, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?".
The story follows Rick Deckard (Ford), a detective who tracks down and terminates dangerous human clones, or “replicants", who have arrived on earth from off-world colonies.
Releasing this Christmas Season is the Final Cut Version of Blade Runner. There are now seven DVD versions of the 1982 cult classic (and one of the greatest science fiction/noir films ever made).
The latest final cut version is not dramatically different from the 1992 Director's Cut, it does correct several technical flaws, including continuity-defying scars, stunt doubles with bad wigs, and Roy Batty's dove flying off into blue sky - which should have been black.
The documentary extras alone run a phenomenal eight hours on the 5-disc set, available on DVD, Blu-ray Disc and HD-DVD from Warner Home Video on December 18th.
Blade Runner features great performances by Ford as well as Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Sean Young and Daryl Hannah.
