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panaflex Community Member
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 1:56 pm Post subject: One man's trash...my original BR script. |
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A good friend of mine who is an assistant director was clearing out his extensive production paperwork backlog for the past 30 years. He knows my fondness of BR and asked me if I wanted his pre production script for the movie. He didn't even remember that he had it in his garage!
I accepted immediately of course. I asked him about his time on the movie and he explained that the pre production portion of the film was arduous and with the schedule consisting of many nights with rain towers, he bailed to go do another film.
I thought it would be cool to share some pics on this site of the script. All my BR stuff is replica props so this is truly a treasure for me to have. I've been thinking of having it authenticated and maybe insured but that may just be overkill.
I read it cover to cover and found some spots where the typewriter ribbon left some traces of itself. Interesting to see something from the pre-computer age...Also, the script is 3 hole punched but has only 2 holes in the cover with the original old school real brass brads to keep it together. I took a closeup of the script #, so there were at least 69 of these distributed to the crew.
Enjoy!
P.S. the photos are in no particular order.
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[/img]  _________________ Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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Robotprops Community Member

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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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It's a nice find. I got one of those for a buddy a while back. I don't want to burst your bubble, but it's probably not a rare copy and it would not have been issued to crew as it's an early Hampton Fancher draft. The shooting script was reworked by David Peoples. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2010 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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Probably not rare, but good to have nontheless.  |
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panaflex Community Member
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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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Robotprops wrote: | It's a nice find. I got one of those for a buddy a while back. I don't want to burst your bubble, but it's probably not a rare copy and it would not have been issued to crew as it's an early Hampton Fancher draft. The shooting script was reworked by David Peoples. |
No big deal, I just thought it was really cool. Rare or not, it's something from BR given to an A.D. and likely the only original thing from the film I'm likely to ever own.
B. _________________ Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
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andy Community Guide

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Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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I have a copy of the same script, after being copied several times over and passed down. The thing that makes yours look closer to the source is the cover which matches some screen used ones I have seen. Scripts were often printed by script publishing companies, and often continued to be made from the same source years after the movie was made. Yours may have been one of those, it wasn't used for shooting, so not a ton of them were made for production, but this one is very common still. It may have been made in numbers when they were casting the film and getting some of the story boards made. Ridley had the script changed numerous times between your script and the final. Here is a little more about the scripts and some downloads including the script you have.
http://brmovie.com/Downloads/Docs/BR_Scripts.htm
Here is a similar one on Ebay right now...
http://cgi.ebay.com/BLADE-RUNNER-ORIGINAL-MOVIE-SCREENPLAY-1980-SCRIPT-/220565872937?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item335ac02129
Like this one, if the number on the upper right of the title page is handwritten, it is a very good sign of an original.
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Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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andy wrote: |
Like this one, if the number on the upper right of the title page is handwritten, it is a very good sign of an original.
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Interesting reading at the Blade Zone site; the number is handwritten and I agree it can't be screen used for all the reasons you mentioned and because my friend left the production before principal photography began to A.D. another film.
Thanks for the links!
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