New Trailer For Escapes, A Documentary About The Screenwriter of Blade Runner

There are some intriguing stories from behind the scenes of Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, but we haven't really heard the one about its screenwriter, Hampton Fancher. He's known for adapting Philip K. Dick's sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

A new documentary titled Escapes, produced by Wes Anderson and directed by Michael Almereyda, aims to dig deeper to show us Fancher's eventful life. Before he wrote the cyberpunk film, Fancher was an actor and flamenco dancer before he turned his focus to screenwriting. As you can see in the trailer, he's a natural storyteller. The film will show us Fancher's road that led him to write and produce 1982's Blade Runner.

Fancher also co-wrote the sequel Blade Runner 2049. Watch the trailer:

Official synopsis of Escapes:

"Directed by Michael Almereyda (Experimenter) and executive produced by Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Escapes blazes a wild path through mid-20th-century Hollywood via the experiences of Hampton Fancher – flamenco dancer, actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner. (Fancher also penned the story for its sequel, Blade Runner 2049.) A consummate raconteur, Fancher recounts episodes from his remarkable life — romantic misadventures with silver-screen stars, wayward acts of chivalry, jealousy, and friendship — matched with a parallel world of film and TV footage wherein Fancher plays cowboys, killers, fops, cads, and the occasional hero. Escapes shows how one man's personal journey can unexpectedly shape a medium's future."

Escapes is set to release in theaters on August.