Passage: Interest in adapting Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? developed shortly after its 1968 publication. (19th Disamba 1980, Darektan Martin Scorsese ya zama mai sha'awar yin fim din littafin, amma bai taba zabar shi ba. Mai shirya Herb Jaffe ya zaɓa shi a farkon shekarun 1970, amma Dick bai ji daɗin rubutun da ɗan Herb ya rubuta ba: "An yi rubutun Jaffe sosai... Robert ya tashi zuwa Santa Ana don ya yi magana da ni game da aikin. Kuma abu na farko da na ce masa lokacin da ya sauka daga jirgin shine, 'Shin zan doke ku a nan a filin jirgin sama, ko zan doke ku a gidana? '" An sanar da Hampton Fancher a shekarar 1977.
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