'Blade Runner' Mystery Solved

L O N D O N, July 10 -- Film director Ridley Scott hasfinally solved a big puzzle for movie buffs — yes, HarrisonFord was a “replicant” in Blade Runner.

The later “director’s cut” edition convinced many fansthat the cop character Deckard was a genetically engineeredreplicant, the creature he was assigned to destroy.

The original 1982 cult film aroused no such suspicions.

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Now Scott has put fans out of their agony, confirming with agrin in a British television documentary: “He’s a replicant.”

“I still think it is one of the best films I ever made,”said the British director, maker of Alien, Thelma andLouise and Gladiator.

“You re-visit it constantly like re-reading one of yourfavorite books. You always find you get sucked in again,” hetold the Channel 4 documentary.