Originally posted by: none
I haven't read Blade Runner's precursor, but wasn't that a short story? So it needed filling out if it was to become a feature film.

Blade Runner's precursor was "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" [DADOES], which was a full novel. There were many elements cut from DADOES to make it into Blade Runner, including the titular electric sheep. Prestige in the future society of DADOES is measured by the pets you own, and people have become so jaded and chemically infected that they need "empathy boxes" and mood machines in order to feel anything. None of this material made its way into Scott's film. I would love to see what Paul Verhoeven, David Fincher or Darren Aronofsky would do with a remake, because they have all made films that touch on issues explored in DADOES. Does this mean I hate Blade Runner? No, but I do wish that some of the material, which goes a long way to explaining what Deckard is (and no, he's not a replicant) would have made its way into the film.

That being said, I think Linklater is trying to distill the main concepts out of A Scanner Darkly, and I'm looking forward to seeing the end result.