Sharpening the Blade
by Richard Horgan

The very same year that Blade Runner came out, 1982, the now defunct parody magazine Crazy published a spoof version titled "Blade Bummer". Unfortunately, there was not a single good laugh to be had from the seven pages of panels, unless your idea of a chuckle is Luke Skywalker coming to the rescue of Harrison Ford's character at the very end because the latter is "the only one who knows what to feed that blasted WOOKIE!"

The following year, 1983, another comic book parody of the Ridley Scott sci-fi classic hit the racks as "Bad Rubber". This time, the Ford character was re-imagined as a duck – yes, a duck – living in Tacoma, Washington, but the results were essentially the same: his battles with a Replicant fox were tame.

Now, with the specter of a Hollywood sequel to Blade Runner looming on the horizon, a belated live action spoof called Bladder Run is taking shape in, of all places, Birmingham, England. The project is the brainchild of 42-year-old business development manager and amateur filmmaker Mark Hevingham, and even though this is a no-budget affair, he and his crew have already managed to get to Chicago for some location shooting. They also, per a recent interview in the local newspaper, have secured the loan of a green screen and the services of a former SAS lead stuntman.

Hevingham is currently casting about for Goth versions of the characters played in the film by Rutger Hauer and Daryl Hannah, to work alongside 45-year-old leading man Tom Bradshaw. Will the end result, tentatively scheduled for completion by the spring, be any good? Well, despite the Flomax-sounding title, it will be hard for Hevingham and co. not to best the current Blade Runner parody benchmark.




http://www.bladderrun.com/





Source: http://www.filmstew.com/showBlog.aspx?blog_id=1454

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SPECIAL NOTE!!!

 The above "Blade Bummer" mention is linked to BladeZone !

 The above "Bad Rubber " mention is linked to KippleZone  in the article! (However the link has an error, which I promptly alerted the editor to.)