'Blade Runner' director recalls doubt over casting Harrison Ford

Ridley Scott has dished on the time when his team mate doubted Harrison Ford for casting him for the lead role in Blade Runner.

During an interview with GQ magazine, the English film director candidly talked about his experience directing the fictional movie.

“Harrison Ford was not a star,” he began by saying. “He had just finished flying the Millennium Falcon in ‘Star Wars.'”

“I remember my financiers saying, ‘Who the f*** is Harrison Ford?’ And I said, ‘You’re going to find out.’ Harry became my leading man.”

Harrison Ford portrayed the role of a retired policeman who worked as a secret agent in the cyberpunk movie which was released on June 25, 1982.

“On ‘Blade Runner’ I was inventing a whole new world,” Scott told the publication.

“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. Hampton wrote this beautiful story set in an apartment,” the 87-year-old director explained.

Before concluding, he shared, “Loved the dialogue, but I wanted to see what happens when he walks out the door.”