Chris Nolan Is Wrong: Blade Runner's Theatrical Cut Isn't The Best Version
Popular director Christopher Nolan recently made headlines for claiming that the theatrical cut of Blade Runner is the best version of the film. This opinion was notable because it cuts against the grain of the general consensus among critics and science fiction fans that Ridley Scott's director's cut is the definitive version of Blade Runner. Nolan is wrong about the theatrical cut of Blade Runner being the best version, but his comments do say something interesting about both the legacy of Blade Runner and the differences between Nolan and Scott as directors.
First released in 1982, Blade Runner stars Harrison Ford as Decker, a man hired to track down renegade android replicants in a near-future Los Angeles. While the initial theatrical release received mixed reactions, the movie has since become regarded as a classic and a pioneer of the cyberpunk genre of sci-fi. Even star Harrison Ford changed his mind about how good Blade Runner was. A large part of this critical re-evaluation was due to the release of director Ridley Scott's personal cut of the movie on home video, which undid the several changes made by studio Warner Brothers.
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However, Christopher Nolan, the director of similarly influential movies such as The Dark Knight and Inception, evidently disagrees with this consensus. In a recent interview on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Nolan expressed his admiration for the Theatrical Cut:
It is the best version of the film. It's imperfect – and it seems presumptuous and I'm a huge fan of Ridley Scott, so I don't want to go up against his view in a sense – but the reality is, that tension between the marketplace, between the studios,
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