Talk:Blade Runner (franchise)

Unofficial media
Unofficial media not produced as part of the franchise has no business being included in the tables or as anything more than a mention. The film Soldier may have been intended as taking place in the same universe as the film series by its writer but that doen't change the fact that it's not a product of the franchise. The Total Recall tv series is most definitely not a real part of it either, it was just inspired by the film in the end even if it was at one point intented to be connected. No offence but I took the time to remove most of the mentions of them as part of the franchise, but I seemed to have broken the character table in the process, sorry for that, not sure how to fix it.★Trekker (talk) 19:20, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

More books
There seems to have been many more books that have been written about Blade Runner, but most do not appear to be licensed products like the Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner one, so they should probably be included in the unofficial media section or something like that.★Trekker (talk) 21:29, 24 September 2017 (UTC)


 * ★Trekker : Would this book do? It contains the original Blade Runner concept art. http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2017/09/25/futurist-and-father-of-blade-runner-gets-his-own-book-the-movie-art-of-syd-mead-visual-futurist-review/ 86.46.193.202 (talk) 22:08, 25 September 2017 (UTC)
 * It might be mentioned or used as a source, but it's not exclusively about Blade Runner so I could not write to much about it.★Trekker (talk) 05:10, 26 September 2017 (UTC)

Link for Cultural Impact or Unnofiical media.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S042yxVkR2I

86.46.193.202 (talk) 19:05, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Merchandise
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/13228/blade-runner

86.46.193.202 (talk) 19:10, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

Documentaries
@★Trekker : Could you include this section? The Blade Runner page has a little on this; after this page is made, some of the details on that page can be toned back a little bit, given it will be covered on this one.

Unofficial media - Alien franchise
@★Trekker, would you be able to rewrite the below section for inclusion in the unofficially related media section??


 * Alien franchise (1979-present)

The Alien franchise is British-American science-fiction horror media franchise started by the Ridley Scott-developed Alien in 1979. Scott would go on to direct Blade Runner in 1982. The original series follows Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley and her battles with the titular creature of the franchise while the prequel series follows android David 8 and his experimentation in creating said creature's species. Various installments of the Blade Runner franchise and the Alien franchise reference various characters and elements from each other.

Connections from the Alien franchise to the Blade Runner franchise are as follows:
 * In 1986, a bonus feature on the film Aliens's DVD contains references to the replicant-producing Tyrell Corporation.
 * In 2012, a bonus feature on the first Alien prequel film Prometheus's DVD revealed "that Guy Pearce's Peter Weyland (who funded the space expedition that Shaw was on in Prometheus) had a mentor, and that was Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkell), a character in the Blade Runner movie who was the CEO of the Tyrell Corporation which produced the replicant androids that Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard pursues."
 * In 2014, the video game Alien: Isolation contains origami unicorns from Blade Runner appearing at various points in the game..
 * In between the time Scott directed Alien in 1979 and returned to the franchise with Prometheus in 2012, he directed Blade Runner, in 1982. Contrary to the white-blooded androids of Alien that emulate emotions and recognize a disconnect with humanity, the replicants of Blade Runner are enhanced biorobotic humanoids that may only be identified by their lacking emotions.{{sfn|Barkman|Barkman|Kang|2013|p=140} Due to David 8, the principle android of Prometheus, identifying himself as a living entity - similar to the replicants - film critics in 2012 would come not to only question if Prometheus was a direct prequel to Alien, but if the film had a relation to Blade Runner. In Blade Runner, the method for identifying the physically identical replicants is by administering the fictional Voight-Kampff test, which detects disparities in emotional responses. Though a replicant would fail the Turing test, an android at the chronological marker of Alien, such as Ash, would likely perform exceedingly well. Additionally, the Chinese room, created by John Searle, has been postured as a test relevant to the androids of the Alien franchise. As the test determines if someone can identify what is Chinese lettering without knowing what it means, philosophers have drawn a parallel to Ash, who may uncannily emulate a human, though fail to understand what it means to be one. Kang described David's eventual introduction as another android character created by Scott as a synthesis between both Alien and Blade Runner, with the character being capable of passing the Turing test like Ash, yet also able to pass the Chinese room test like a replicant, implying that he would indeed be the first living android of the Alien franchise.

Connections from the Blade Runner franchise to the Alien franchise are as follows:
 * The "environ PURGE" screen displayed in Alien (1978) during Ripley's destruction of the Nostromo, reappears in Blade Runner (1982) during Gaff's interaction with police spinners.
 * A replicant in Blade Runner 2049 (2017) is designed after the engineers from Prometheus. 86.43.190.2 (talk) 19:03, 28 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Not sure this needs much rewriting.★Trekker (talk) 19:25, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Autoencoded Blade Runner
This is worthy of a mention somewhere on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.46.203.65 (talk) 16:44, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Link for Voigt-Kampff machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060506211308/http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=article&articleid=24031

Black lotus comic
Someone should add the 2022 blade runner black lotus graphic novel 2604:3D09:6979:AB00:9503:D811:80CE:239C (talk) 00:37, 3 December 2022 (UTC)