How 'Blade Runner' and 'The Running Man' predicted 2019 -- decades ago

Two classic science-fiction films -- "Blade Runner" and "The Running Man" -- are both set in 2019, and although the films envisioned a few details that aren't a reality right now, many of their themes nailed current modern life in America. "I call science fiction'reality ahead of schedule,'" Syd Mead, the celebrated designer behind "Blade Runner," tells The Post. Watch these films now, and you can see many parallels between their fictional worlds and the real one we're living in this very year. Ridley Scott's 1982 film "Blade Runner" told the story of a detective (Harrison Ford) tasked with hunting rogue humanoids known as "replicants," played by Daryl Hannah and Rutger Hauer. "The Running Man," which hit theaters in 1987, concerned a police officer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) falsely imprisoned by the totalitarian state and made to perform on a top-rated game show, which forces convicts to run from heavily armed pursuers through a dystopian maze. While the events of the films are too exaggerated to be real, the two movies are set in a world affected by climate change and technological upheaval, both of which can be seen today.