Ridley Scott has a great regret about his classic science fiction blade runner from the 80s

Ridley Scott’s direct and fractious way gives the impression that he does not really regret. The man who, in a featurette “Blade Runner”, said. “I don’t like discussion. I know exactly what I want […] This is the work of the director, “does not seem to be one to remember or get lost in a nostalgic reverie. But even regrets him, and it seems that one in particular has to do with the fact of not bringing back to the house a piece of cinematographic history after having drawn” Blade Runner “.

Scott’s biggest regret includes two legendary science fiction franchises in “Alien” and “Blade Runner”. In simple terms, the director has never obtained the rights either and had trouble keeping any type of property on the management of the two franchises since, even if he has made the executive the continuation of Denis Villeneuve in 2017 “Blade Runner 2049” (a magnificent follow-up which also served as a tale in the box office). He also produced two prequelles “Alien” with “Prometheus” of 2012 and “Alien: Covenant” of 2012, and helped to guide the occasion occasionally but safe “Alien: Romulus” as a producer in 2024, but otherwise had to give up the creative control of the two franchises, and which has clearly disturbed it over the years. As the director said to the Hollywood Reporter, “I should have locked [the ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner’ franchises] above, as [Steven] Spielberg did it with “Jurassic” and everything he does, and James Cameron did with what he has. »»

But it was not the only revelation that struck Scott in the years since he made two of the greatest science fiction films in the history of cinema. In 2025, he revealed that, in addition to wishing to have kept a certain property of the intellectual property which he had helped to establish, he also wished that he literally possessed parts of his previous films. More specifically, he regrets not stealing the Voight-Kampffe machine from the “Blade Runner” ensemble.

In “Blade Runner”, holder premium hunters use a Voight-Kampff test to determine whether an individual is a replicant or not. This implies asking a series of questions and measuring the answers in the individual, from breathing and heart rate to blushing and pupillary dilation. It was essentially a futuristic form of a lie detector, and actually appeared for the first time in the novel on which “Blade Runner” is vaguely based, “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Philip K. Dick? “Built by the veteran of visual effects Michael Fink, the real cinema machine appears during the incredible opening scene and reproduces at various times, including the interview with Rick Deckard with Rachael (Sean Young). It was a retrofuturist wonder with a series of screens and CRT meters alongside a pump (for any reason) and a retinal scanner The machine.

In an interview with The Guardian, Scott was asked if he had passed the diagnostic empathy test of Voight-Kampffe from the whole “Blade Runner”, and revealed that this particular accessory was missing was one of his greatest regrets. “Isn’t this machine great?” He said. “A bastard stole him overall. When he appears on the market, I will continue them like a rat in a drainage pipe.” According to the director, he was never used to taking memories of the sets of his films, preferring to continue to wait. “I think:” I have finished, continue “”, he explained. But it seems that time continued, Scott recognized the value of taking certain accessories when he could. “Now I realize that I should, because they enter the stores and get lost forever,” he added, before providing a complete overview of the things he has managed to secure. He continued:

“I receive permission to take things and put spatial combinations of films in my vineyard in France. I have a space costume of” The Martian “. I have an original space costume of” Alien “. Can you imagine what it is worth? They are all in my barrel room, which has 12,000 square feet of barrels.