Shining Splice Presents:





Hampton Fancher Blade Runner Night





23 November 2019, 5pm doors.





Greenpoint Palace, 206 Nassau Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222 https://www.greenpointpalace.com/event-space





Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hampton-fancher-blade-runner-night-tickets-78090365385





Join us at the Greenpoint Palace, Brooklyn, for a very special audience with Hampton Fancher, legendary screenwriter of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049.





The talk takes place in the month that Blade Runner is set, in the city that Sir Ridley Scott originally wanted to locate the film.





Following a low-tech screening of Blade Runner Final Cut, Hampton will discuss his work on Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049 and much more, with the acclaimed journalist and New York Times Magazine writer Elizabeth Rubin and Charles de Lauzirika, director of DANGEROUS DAYS: MAKING BLADE RUNNER and the restoration producer of BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT.





We are also very excited to announce that Sean Young (Rachael in Blade Runner), will be taking part in the discussion with Hampton, Elizabeth and Charles!





Before the screening of Blade Runner Final Cut, we will screen a one-off introduction to the film by Sir Ridley Scott. The intro was recorded ahead of the Teesside Blade Runner convention - Scott’s home town – which was run by Shining Splice’s sister organisation Static Gallery.





The night will include noodles and DJ sets from Joe McLaughlin and M.P. Messenie.





The screening of Blade Runner is not meant to be a sealed box auditorium experience, it’s more street level, more noise, more how Fancher envisaged the world of Blade Runner.





The cost of the ticket is for the discussion with Hampton but guests must be in the building at doors at 5pm to ensure entry is guaranteed.





Programme:





17.00 Doors/drinks





18.00 Blade Runner Final Cut





20.00 Drinks/Noodles





20.30 Q+A with Hampton Fancher, Sean Young, Elizabeth Rubin and Charles de Lauzirika.





21.45 Drinks/Noodles, DJs/Visuals TILL LATE





Note: Noodles and drinks not included in the ticket price









Elizabeth Rubin states:





“Hampton Fancher and I met in 1997 when Fancher and Ridley Scott optioned a story of mine in Harper’s Magazine about South African mercenaries in Sierra Leone. We have remained close confidantes ever since.”





Paul Sullivan (Director of Shining Splice) states:





“Hampton couldn’t come to Teesside, UK, Sir Ridley Scott’s home town, for the November 2019 Blade Runner Convention, so we decided to come to Brooklyn to set up a one-night special event on Hampton’s own patch!”





“Of course, we will show Blade Runner and eat noodles, but the talk between Hampton, Elizabeth and Charles promises to be a unique experience, an insight into the reclusive Fancher’s thought processes and stories related to the development and making of one of the greatest science fiction films ever made.”





Contact Paul Sullivan for more info/press images: info@shiningsplice.com





Telephone: 00 44 7882378463









Notes on participants:





Hampton Fancher:





Hampton Fancher is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker, best known for co-writing the 1982 neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner and its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick.





Mary Sean Young:





Mary Sean Young is an American actor. She is best known for her performances in the films Stripes (1981), Blade Runner (1982), Dune (1984), No Way Out (1987), Wall Street (1987), Cousins (1989) and Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994).

Elizabeth Rubin:





Elizabeth Rubin has covered conflict around the world for two decades. She has written portraits of major and minor leaders, activists, artists, mothers, soldiers, smugglers, spies and war criminals in South Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe for The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, Bidoun, Vogue, among others.





Rubin’s journalism has received many honors including the Livingston Award, the Bayeux-Calvados Award, the Kurt Schork Award. She has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, an Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.





She is currently at work on Studio Kabul a film about Afghan Soap Opera actresses; and completing a book called The Charismatics, set in the Great Lakes region of Africa and southern California.





Charles de Lauzirika:





Charles de Lauzirika is the producer of over 100 behind-the-scenes documentaries and featurettes, including the definitive making-ofs on BLADE RUNNER, TWIN PEAKS and The ALIEN Anthology, Lauzirika made his feature directorial debut with the psychological thriller CRAVE, starring Josh Lawson, Emma Lung, Edward Furlong and Ron Perlman. The film won several awards, including Best First Feature at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, and Best Director (Next Wave) at Fantastic Fest in Austin. In addition to directing commercials, music videos and the recent satirical horror short LOVE BITE, he and Kalen Egan (Executive Producer on THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE) have adapted Philip K. Dick’s futuristic drama I HOPE I SHALL ARRIVE SOON into a feature-length screenplay. Lauzirika continues to produce BTS content while developing film projects to direct.





Notes on Blade Runner:





Blade Runner is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, and written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young, it is loosely based on Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968). The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on off-world colonies. When a fugitive group of Nexus-6 replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.



