I re-read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, and Ridley Scott is still a douchebag.

[MrCoffee]

Deckard ain't no replicant.

[siligut]

1. We have the director’s cut and it raises doubt on whether he is human.

There is also a Blade Runner video game, with optional endings, one of which indicates that Deckard is an android.

However, I agree with many others that Ridley was milking this concept. PKD's Deckard is human.

[no name no slogan]

2. Ridley's may be an android. But Dick's definitely is not.

Deckard is WAAAAY human in the book. The movie, although cool, is not the same thing, not by a longshot.

[baldguy]

3. Look at the glow in his eyes!

Of course he's a replicant!

[redqueen]

4. Some people accept Ridley's idiotic messing with the story as a good thing.

What can you do?

[cemaphonic]

5. Hopefully his threatened version of Blood Meridian never happens

[Redneck Socialist]

7. As much as I want to see that book made into a film..

...I'm much a skeerd a what Scott might do with it.

[cemaphonic]

8. I think it's basically unfilmable

And not just for the constant horrific violence either. McCarthy's beautiful, idiosyncratic prose is a big part of that book's greatness, and something that just doesn't translate to film. And I can't see any actor doing a convincing portrayal of Judge Holden.

[tigereye]

11. I would love to see a movie version of The Man in the High Castle

great and thought-provoking book.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

6. I always thought it was pretty obvious that Harrison Ford was a robot.

I knew as early as American Graffiti.

[mainegreen]

9. No, he isn't. It fucks up everything to make him one.

[tigereye]

10. noooooo! Not again....

just kidding.

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. Recommending.

[Lethe]

13. ...

[harmonicon]

14. that's the way I feel too

...but it's never explicitly stated, so there's no real way to know.

[Dr. Strange]

15. Here you go.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themes_in_Blade_Runner#Deckard:_human_or_replicant.3F

* Philip K. Dick wrote the character Deckard as a human.
* Hampton Fancher (original screenwriter) has said that he wrote the character Deckard as a human, but wanted the film to suggest the possibility that he may be a replicant. When asked, "Is Deckard a replicant?", Fancher replied, "No. It wasn't like I had a tricky idea about Deckard that way." During a discussion panel with Ridley Scott to discuss Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Fancher again stated that he believes Deckard is human (saying that "Ridley Scott's idea is too complex"), but also repeated that he prefers the film to remain ambiguous: "I like asking the question and I like it to be asked but I think it’s nonsense to answer it. That’s not interesting to me."
* Ridley Scott stated in an interview in 2002 that he considers Deckard a replicant.
* Harrison Ford considers Deckard to be human. "That was the main area of contention between Ridley and myself at the time," Ford told interviewer Jonathan Ross during a BBC1 Hollywood Greats segment. "I thought the audience deserved one human being on screen that they could establish an emotional relationship with. I thought I had won Ridley's agreement to that, but in fact I think he had a little reservation about that. I think he really wanted to have it both ways." (However, in an interview in Wired magazine in 2007, Ridley again states that he believes Deckard is a replicant, and jokingly says that Harrison Ford may have given up the idea of Deckard being human.)