BRmovie.com: Blade Runner Souvenir Magazine - Official Collector's Edition |
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Left: Location scouting turned up these photographs of the interior of the Bradbury Building. This structure is architecturally renowned for its masses of ironwork, open staircases and elevators.
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We had been searching for locations for a building. We wanted to go on
location to an old, decrepit building and take a suite of rooms and use
that as Sebastian's apartment. One day we were downtown Los Angeles looking
at a possible location, and I took a stroll across the street with Ridley
and a few other people and Ridley took a look inside the beautiful Bradbury
Building. What we did to that building you wouldn't believe. On a superficial
level we trashed it with high-tech, then filled it with smoke on the inside
and shot it at night. We also added a canopy with big columns to make
it look like it was an old apartment building. All of a sudden, we had
a very Gothic, eerie environment. |
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Below Left: The ironwork staircases identify this Sherman Labby storyboard as the Bradbury Building. Below: Syd Mead's early design concept for Deckard's gun. |
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