Conclusion

Scott wanted a major revision of Hampton Fancher's screenplay, when he was brought into the project. All these factors contributed to the changing storyline of the film compared to the original book. The film's screenplay was finally accomplished by David W. Peoples, who was a respected writer in Hollywood at that particular time. He studied the novel by Dick and transferred the essential thematic material of the book, sometimes improving on the original story and at other times lacking in the complexities of Dick's unique writing style. Dick himself was rejected by the Hollywood producers as a choice of writer for the script. The film was scheduled to be shot in London, but due to the financial collapse of the company that was funding the project, Filmways Pictures, and the subsequent involvement of Tandem Productions (the company of Jerry Perenchio and Bud Yorkin), and the Ladd Company; the film was finally made in America at the Burbank Studios in California. During the making of Blade Runner, Philip K. Dick was involved with other studios, who were adapting	his work into films. The general feeling with these other studios was of animosity towards the Blade Runner project, which did not help matters. They were concerned that the Ridley Scott film would become too successful and absorb all the media attention and publicity because of its high budget costs and special effects. The choice of the American actor Harrison Ford to play the lead role of Rick Deckard also had a fundamental influence on the film, because of his contribution of ideas for the character and the script. Before the principal photography began there was a fundamental difference between Rick Deckard as Ridley Scott saw him, and the character envisaged by Harrison Ford. Scott's Deckard was apparent to the director as far back as Hampton Fancher's version of the script. He envisaged Deckard as a kind of Philip Marlowe character, which inevitably created the idea of having a narration. This was another of the film's major criticisms. Ford wanted to portray the character in more realistic terms, almost like

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