04 February 2014
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Vectis Auctions to sell original Blade Runner script
Totalling 141 pages long, the Blade Runner script has been given a pre-sale estimate of £1,500 to £2,000. ...
Vectis Auctions to sell original Blade Runner script Images
It seems appropriate that Vectis Auctions is set to sell some unique and important Blade Runner and Alien-related movie memorabilia in its upcoming auction on 18th February. The reason is that the films’ director, Ridley Scott, has his roots firmly in the North East of England, where Vectis is based. In fact, the industrial landscape of Middlesbrough was an inspiration for some of Blade Runner’s cityscape shots.
One of the items in the auction is a typewritten unbound Blade Runner script, dated 22nd December 1980. The script also has notation in “no-repro blue” pencil to the margins (many are proof marks but also queries and changes to the copy), plus some corrections that are carefully affixed over the original manuscript with white tape.
Original documentation for Blade Runner is hard to come by because during a switch between offices there was a loss of paperwork boxes. Many of the documents were lost before filming even began.
Totalling 141 pages long, the Blade Runner script has been given a pre-sale estimate of £1,500 to £2,000. The vendor purchased the script from Freeman’s Auction House, Philadelphia, USA in September 2010.
Ridley Scott was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear on 30 November 1937. After studying at West Hartlepool College of Art and Design, and later London's Royal College of Art he helped found the film department. In 1962 he joined the BBC as an apprentice set designer; working on Doctor Who in 1963. His first director's job was an episode of Z Cars in 1965.
The advertising production company RSA (Ridley Scott Associates) was formed in 1967 and was responsible for producing some of the best known TV Commercials including the Hovis bread advertisement in 1973, set to Dvorak's "New World" symphony... voted the all-time favourite ad.
In the 1970s Ridley began to work on ideas for feature films. The Duellists in 1977 won a prize at Cannes for Best First Work. The Sci-Fi horror film Alien was a worldwide success in 1979 and established his reputation as a movie director. Blade Runner followed in 1982 - becoming one of the most important Sci-Fi Films ever made.
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One of the items in the auction is a typewritten unbound Blade Runner script, dated 22nd December 1980. The script also has notation in “no-repro blue” pencil to the margins (many are proof marks but also queries and changes to the copy), plus some corrections that are carefully affixed over the original manuscript with white tape.
Original documentation for Blade Runner is hard to come by because during a switch between offices there was a loss of paperwork boxes. Many of the documents were lost before filming even began.
Totalling 141 pages long, the Blade Runner script has been given a pre-sale estimate of £1,500 to £2,000. The vendor purchased the script from Freeman’s Auction House, Philadelphia, USA in September 2010.
Ridley Scott was born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear on 30 November 1937. After studying at West Hartlepool College of Art and Design, and later London's Royal College of Art he helped found the film department. In 1962 he joined the BBC as an apprentice set designer; working on Doctor Who in 1963. His first director's job was an episode of Z Cars in 1965.
The advertising production company RSA (Ridley Scott Associates) was formed in 1967 and was responsible for producing some of the best known TV Commercials including the Hovis bread advertisement in 1973, set to Dvorak's "New World" symphony... voted the all-time favourite ad.
In the 1970s Ridley began to work on ideas for feature films. The Duellists in 1977 won a prize at Cannes for Best First Work. The Sci-Fi horror film Alien was a worldwide success in 1979 and established his reputation as a movie director. Blade Runner followed in 1982 - becoming one of the most important Sci-Fi Films ever made.
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