8 Blade Runner Clues That Prove Deckard Was Always A Replicant

While the various cuts of Blade Runner make it tougher to parse the sci-fi thriller’s story, there are a lot of clues hinting at Rick Deckard’s secret replicant status. Released in 1982, Blade Runner was director Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated follow-up to 1979’s Alien. Where Alien was a self-contained, claustrophobic sci-fi horror, Blade Runner was a more ambitious, immersive blend of sci-fi and film noir. Based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by author Philip K. Dick, Blade Runner tells the story of Harrison Ford’s Deckard, an antihero and former cop tasked with hunting down rogue replicants.