Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Sha'awar daidaita littafin Philip K. Dick Shin Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ya bunkasa jim kaɗan bayan wallafa shi a shekarar 1968. Darektan Martin Scorsese yana da sha'awar yin fim din littafin, amma bai taba zabarsa ba. Mai gabatarwa Herb Jaffe ya zaɓi shi a farkon shekarun 1970, amma Dick bai yi farin ciki da rubutun da ɗan Herb ya rubuta ba Robert: "An yi rubutun Jaffe sosai... Robert ya zo Santa Ana don ya tattauna da ni game da aikin. Kuma abu na farko da na ce masa lokacin da ya sauka daga jirgin sama shi ne, 'Shin zan doke ku a nan a filin jirgin sama, ko kuma zan doke ku a gidana?'"An zaɓi rubutun da Hampton Fancher ya yi a 1977. Mai shirya Michael Deeley ya zama mai sha'awar zane-zanen Fancher kuma ya shawo kan darektan Ridley Scott don yin fim din. Scott a baya ya ƙi aikin, amma bayan barin jinkirin samar da Dune, yana son aikin da ya fi sauri don kawar da tunaninsa game da mutuwar ɗan'uwansa na kwanan nan. Ya shiga aikin a ranar 21 ga Fabrairu, 1980, kuma ya sami damar turawa da aka yi alkawarinsa na Filmways daga dala miliyan 13 zuwa dala miliyan 15. Rubutun Fancher ya fi mai da hankali kan al'amuran muhalli da ƙarancin al'amuran bil'adama da addini, waɗanda suka yi fice a cikin littafin kuma Scott yana son canje-canje. Fancher ya sami maganin fim din William S. Burroughs don littafin Alan E. Nourse The Bladerunner (1974), mai taken Blade Runner (fim). Scott yana son sunan, don haka Deeley ya sami haƙƙin taken. Daga ƙarshe ya ɗauki David Peoples don sake rubuta rubutun kuma Fancher ya bar aikin a kan batun a ranar 21 ga Disamba, 1980, kodayake daga baya ya dawo don ba da gudummawar ƙarin rubuce-rubuce. Bayan ya saka hannun jari sama da dala miliyan 2.5 a cikin pre-samarwa, kamar yadda ranar fara ɗaukar hoto ta kusa, Filmways ya janye tallafin kuɗi. A cikin kwanaki goma Deeley ya sami dala miliyan 21.5 a cikin kuɗi ta hanyar yarjejeniya ta uku tsakanin Kamfanin Ladd (ta hanyar Warner Bros.), mai shirya Sir Run Run Shaw da Tandem Productions. Dick ya damu cewa babu wanda ya sanar da shi game da fim din...  Tambaya: Wanene babban ɗan'uwansa ya mutu?
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