[amiramir]

Blade Runner's production design is beautiful and almost prefectly timeless in its depiction of a future. The only thing that dates the film for me is the cathode ray tubes. They are even in the flying cars I think.

Directors and designers could start using flat blue devices so that interfaces can be re-imagined, in 2-D, or 3-D, and composited in future re-masterings. I like the non-desript tri-fold devices in Westworld. Kudos to the 2001 team for getting imagining tablet interfaces although that did not sway the jury Samsung vs Apple iPad case[1][2].

[1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/23/samsung_cites_scie...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._v._Samsung_Electron....

[gozur88]

I love Blade Runner's design, too. The story goes there was an actor's strike that year, and they couldn't shoot any of the scenes. As a consequence the artists had far more time than usual and made the best of it.

It's supposed to take place in 2019.

[geon]

If Star Wars has taught us anything, it is that later remastered editions should keep to the original as closely as possible.

[usrusr]

Flat blue compositing placeholders? The gods of advertisement seem to have anticipated your request:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement#Re-placeme...

[DanBC]

For some reason this reminds me of Repo Man's use of blank product labels - everything has a white label with blue writing.