You learn something new every day, and while some fans of "Blade Runner" might already know this, it's fresh for me and probably for others as well. While almost every inch of the production of "Blade Runner" has been pored over, examined, and detailed, what you might might not know is that Ridley Scott rang up Stanley Kubrick for some help with the ending.
In the latest directors roundtable talk at THR, Scott revealed how footage from "The Shining" was used to help pad out the final portion of "Blade Runner."
"I had finished 'Blade Runner,' and it was a disaster," he said. "My investors were giving me a really hard time, saying 'You can't end the film with picking up a piece of origami, looking at the girl, walk in the elevator, nod, and bingo that's it.' I said, 'It's called a film noir.' And they said, 'What's a film noir?' That was a big problem. And he said, 'We have to test this with an uplifting ending, where they...
