Script To Screen: “Blade Runner”

Batty and Deckard’s final struggle from the movie Blade Runner (1982), screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick.

Set-Up: All of his kin are dead and Batty goes after Deckard.

Here is the scene from the movie:

Check this out: An earlier version of the final struggle between Batty and Deckard:

A huge difference between the two endings.

I’ll see you in comments for a discussion of this scene from Blade Runner.

One of the single best things you can do to learn the craft of screenwriting is to read the script while watching the movie. After all a screenplay is a blueprint to make a movie and it’s that magic of what happens between printed page and final print that can inform how you approach writing scenes. That is the purpose of Script to Screen, a Go Into The Story series where we analyze a memorable movie scene and the script pages that inspired it.

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