The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner, " based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, " still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.