Blade Runner is a 1982 English-language Sci-Fi Thriller film written by Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples and Philip K. Dick. The movie is directed by Ridley Scott and produced by Michael Deeley under the banner of The Ladd Company in collaboration with Shaw Brothers and Blade Runner Partnership. A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator. Blade runner stars Harrison Ford in the title role along with an ensemble cast including Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah and William Sanderson. The screenplay is written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples which is inspired from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The music was composed by Vangelis. Cinematography was done by Jordan Cronenweth and editing by Terry Rawlings and Marsha Nakashima. The film has a running time of 117 minutes. It was released on 25th June 1982 and it received positive reviews from critics when it was released and became successful at box office. Blade Runner was made on a budget of $30 million and it was a hit at box office gross of $41 million. Distribution rights for the movie were acquired by Warner Bros.