The Science Behind "Blade Runner"'s Voight-Kampff Test - Facts So Romantic

Is Rick Deckard a replicant, an advanced bioengineered being? The jury concerning the character in 1982's Blade Runner is still out. Harrison Ford, who plays Deckard in the film, thinks he is. Ridley Scott, the film's director, is adamant that he's not. Hampton Fancher, the screenwriter for the original film and the sequel, Blade Runner 2049, out today, prefers the ambiguity: "I like asking the question," he's said, "but I think it's nonsense to answer it."