Ridley Scott Turning Down Blade Runner For This 1984 Sci-Fi Flop Would Have Changed Sci-Fi History

Blade Runner defined an era of science fiction after it brought Philip K Dick’s expansive cyberpunk vision to life on screen in 1982, establishing Ridley Scott as a master of the genre and boosting Harrison Ford’s noir credentials. However, the Alien director almost turned down the dystopia, only taking it on after ditching his plans for creating another sci-fi movie which is famous for much less impressive reasons. After an initial theatrical letdown, Ridley Scott’s director’s cut of Blade Runner is now considered a classic of the genre, but sci-fi history itself would have been changed if instead Scott had instead focused on a very different 1980s project.