Blade Runner Image Gallery and Blog Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott. The film is about how genetically cloned beings called replicants are developed to perform dangerous work on earths off world colonial areas. After a replicant uprising, some of the replicants attacks earth. The Story of the film is based in Lo Angeles and tells how a police unit team called Blade runner is saving the people from these replicants. The film though didn’t perform well in North America was a hit overseas. Rick Deckard stars as the Blade Runner.