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Harrison Ford Got Cast in ‘Blade Runner’ After Playing Han Solo, but the Financiers Asked Ridley Scott: ‘Who the F— Is Harrison Ford?’
Harrison Ford was already Han Solo in "Star Wars" and cast as Indiana Jones when he got the role in "Blade Runner."
Ridley Scott sat down with GQ magazine for a retrospective video interview and revealed the financiers on “ Blade Runner ” originally questioned his decision to cast Harrison Ford in the lead role. One would think it’d be a no-brainer as Ford was already Han Solo in “Star Wars” at the point in his career in addition to being picked by Steven Spielberg to headline “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.” Apparently the financiers were not paying attention. “I spent five months with a very good writer Hampton Fancher, who’d really written a play adapted from the novel ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’ I read the book and felt there were 90 stories in the first 20 pages and it was too complex.
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