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Harrison Ford portrayed the character in the 1982 film adaptation, Blade Runner, and reprised his role in the 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049. James Purefoy voiced the character in the 2014 BBC Radio 4 adaptation.
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Sometime prior to November 2019, Deckard was divorced, his father had died, and he had retired from his job as a Blade Runner after killing a Nexus-3 replicant, whose death made Deckard feel sickbecause he felt the replicant was "too smooth, too human."
Deckard is based upon the character of the same name from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Director Ridley Scott initially wanted to introduce Deckard by having him go to a secluded cabin where a replicant lived. He would introduce himself, retire the replicant and take its jaw, which would identify it. A similar sc...
Jun 25, 1982 · Blade Runner: Directed by Ridley Scott. With Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos. A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.
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Dick's friend K. W. Jeter wrote three authorized Blade Runner novels that continue Rick Deckard's story, attempting to resolve the differences between the film and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? [241]
Sep 9, 2024 · Rick Deckard (played by Harrison Ford) is a former “blade runner,” a police officer who specializes in tracking down synthetic humanoids called “replicants” and executing them—a procedure euphemistically called “retirement.”
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Aug 10, 2022 · Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth, seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
Rick Deckard is the movie's protagonist, but he's kind of a puzzling guy—more so than many of the other characters. Yeah, it seems like he's the hero, but his job as a blade runner is to kill replicants, who are essentially runaway slaves. He may kill them reluctantly but he kills them nonetheless.
