It's always strange when the title of a movie or series doesn't necessarily match its story, but fewer cases are as puzzling as Blade Runner . The movie adapts a Philip K. Dick novel with a completely different title itself , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? , and there isn't any mention throughout Rick Deckard's ( Harrison Ford ) misadventures of why his job is referred to as a blade runner, neither in the movie nor the novel. Decades later, Blade Runner 2049 came out and once again this question went unanswered , and you can bet that, when Blade Runner 2099 arrives, it will remain that way.

There actually is a story behind how director Ridley Scott and writer Hampton Fancher arrived at this title, though. As it turns out, the term "blade

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