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Hampton Lansden Fancher (born July 18, 1938) is an American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker, who co-wrote the 1982 neo-noir science fiction film Blade Runner, based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, and its 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049. His 1999 directorial debut, The Minus Man, won the Special Grand Prize of the Jury at the Montreal World Film Festival.
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- At 15, he ran away to Spain to become a flamenco dancer and renamed himself "Mario Montejo".
- Co-writer of the screenplay for 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.
- In 2019, Fancher published The Wall Will Tell You, a screenwriting manual which drew from his personal experiences.
- "I am interested in what it is to be human as in humane, and how so much of our history is the opposite. The solution to that, to some degree, is empathy. We're lost because of our inability to live within our empathetic impulses, but the contradictions are intriguing. That's in Blade Runner. Plus the idea of perfecting ourselves, but then Roy Batty puts his maker's eyes out."
