1 Blade Runner Casting Choice That Completely Changed A Character From The Book

The casting team behind Blade Runner made a crucial choice with the roles of Rachael and Pris that completely changed those characters from the book. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a detective sent out into a futuristic Los Angeles to hunt down and neutralize a group of androids, known as “replicants,” who have successfully integrated themselves into human society. The film was adapted from Philip K. Dick’s seminal 1968 sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, but director Ridley Scott deviated from the source material in a couple of major ways.