Adam Savage Examines the Blade Runner 2049 Blasters!

The Bladerunner blaster perhaps in my opinion the most iconic handgun in film history Here's a little edit of my history with the Blade Runner blaster Wow! Oh man! Huh! Right now that we've established that behind me in the prop Department are more than a dozen Bladerunner blasters and Blade Runner prop master Doug Harlocker is going to give me a tour of them Both the old blasters that they've remade for this movie, and the new ones that they've designed for it Let's go look Okay, I mean most people when they think of Blade Runner they tend to drift their mind over the blaster It's such an iconic piece and you guys have replicated the original blaster as well as some new ones Can you talk me through the process. 'Sure you know we' We contacted the person who owned the original blaster. He got it. I guess he bought it at auction years ago He's a good friend of mine 'yes, Dan' And and so we took we studied his Intensively and we basically backed into ours that way so we built them from scratch But I will say for the most part by the end we made replicas and Rubber ones of course for our stunt people. So you can see That's one of the rubber ones with the paint Wow! as you can see so we went from Very lightweight 'yes' to the replica which is heavy yeah to The we built real ones with a Steyr rifle receiver and the bulldog that's even heavier than this go yeah right so Harrison who basically hurt his wrist a little while ago was like mother of god You know that is like give me the rubber one now. You've got to use the replica now You got to use the real one you know, so he's he? You know it's all coming back to him the weights and measures of sure this is sorry I'm just completely gobsmacked that this is rubber this weighs Yeah, six or eight ounces. And again, this is the the beauty of paint finishes right is that you can really replicate? The metallics really are are there for you. I'm blown away. It's absolutely gorgeous Wow This is the next-generation blaster of course The original blaster had a real bulldog Revolver in it so it could blank fire. Yeah, big muzzle flash out of that We tried to design around smaller revolver so we could get a real muzzle flash out of this gun we found that we Started started to get a little fat a little too big and we wanted it to have maintain a little bit of an Elliptical feeling and you can see this this now how we really wanted to maintain some you know it's a big gun on the side, but it's actually got a nice profile on them in the beginning so in the end we decided uh, uh Form over function That we would prefer to keep it as a perfect design and not have to worry about Making it all you know misshaped by putting a real gun in it, so we'll it'll be a CG muzzle flash okay, and I'm From the way, you just the way you're talking about it you're not just Constructing a bit deeply part of the design process an iterative process as well We you know we spent a lot of time of course big responsibility going from an iconic handgun to the next generation of that gun so we yeah, we took our time and You know we wanted to make it as interesting as possible this was a an iteration of a Design that started you know Six generations early in other words we went through lots of design and changes until we got to it and I Know we of course give it a little bit of age. Give it a little bit of you know deniz But really likes the brutal concept of it of of this his movie They love the brutal aspect of the last movie, and so you know he really wanted it to feel like it was a handled Well used. Yeah, I also, really liked the You know the the the front piece of the original blaster is so it's so different than a normal pistol. Oh yeah normal gun It was I remember from making sketches of the VHS on Freeze-frame when it was 18 and trying to figure out all these different parts, and you guys have really Upgraded and still carried forward that kind of unique profile. Yeah, I mean it's hard you know you've that's A lot of people been designing guns the last 15 years or so 20 years and really coming up with some great concepts District 9 and different people that are really coming up with great finishes and great you know just really unusual designs, so it's it's hard you know and You know we did oblivion and oblivion had again coming up with a handgun and a rifle and different variations of that thing It's another movie that Everything we designed everything We made was designed absolutely so I saw I love the guns in Oblivion version wonderful, and this this has a little Lighting component, so there is a little just one little LED and basically I put a little a little piece in there so that when it fires There's a little right we can we can get a little something. I know it seems. Oh, it's an electromagnet so okay. There you go cool So at least we see some functionality yes And you see you just something that the audience can take a look at it's just not an inanimate object and again You've got the little light. That's I mean you've you really tried to address the Iconography that's lovely mmm and again all of these. We make are stunts as well and Real and you'll see all the great fun. There is right it's Again, but the finishes you know it used to be the rubber you could never match the finishes now It's we're getting you know the finishes are right there, and this is because also the materials technology and the painting technology are yes yeah, certainly the quality of paints and The the paint techniques and the painters out there becoming very skilled it's great Doug having made my own Blade Runner blaster from scratch took me about four years of working up the nerve to Mill every surface and little bit, it's it's nerve-racking and they're all different hardnesses Um it's thrilling to see so many of them all in one place. Thanks for thanks for showing me all the toys yeah It's a pleasure. Uh you're gonna try and make one of these now is that you Probably not kidding no I'll probably just want to visit your shop now and see What's your what you're working on you'll have to come by all right? Well. This is a pleasure I? I know. I seemed a little subdued in there. Look, the fact is Doug is such a legend, I'm such an admirer of his work And it was so overwhelming to see all those blasters in one place that I tried really hard not to become a screaming fanboy But Doug has told me I can have another few minutes with the blasters, and I'm gonna take it.

Channel: Adam Savage’s Tested

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Length: 8min 5sec (485 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 06 2017

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I wish I could feel passion once in my life as deep as Adam.Savage feels for those blasters.

[u/some_random_kaluna]

Deckard uses a revolver. K uses a semiauto.

This detail strikes a chord in my soul.