I took it easy over the Easter break but am now back in the office for the duration. First thing I found this morning was that the Brownlee Brothers had filled my dropbox with reference material. Lots of pretty pictures of robots, spaceships, sidearms and sexy people. First job of the day was to sip coffee and take all that in. Happily, as usual, we were on the same page. One of the images they dropped through was a mock up of the gun that Harrison Ford used in Blade Runner.

It’s not a movie weapon I’ve given too much thought to before, but oddly enough I’d saved a story about the original prop only last week when I read that it was up for auction. It’s a thing of beauty:

I mentioned in the previous comment that I’m not a car guy and that goes double for guns. But stick ‘em in a movie with the right cast and director and I’m in heaven.

Right now we’re just beginning to pull together the look and feel of the weapons used in Slingers. Being the idiot writer that I am it hadn’t quite sunk in that we get to actually build these things too.

Exciting times ahead… one weapon in particular is going to be a lot of fun.

Remember kids, guns don’t retire replicants. Blade Runners with guns retire replicants.