Since we launched Ford Focus we've been regularly releasing bonus episodes of the show for subscribers to our Patreon. We call this show within a show Ford Escape, as it usually covers movies in which Ford doesn't appear but are related, sometimes loosely, to the movie on our main feed. This week we decided to drop one on the main feed to give our free subscribers a listen to what they've been missing.
While talking about Blade Runner Mike brought up another sci-fi film he always associated with it because it played alongside Blade Runner on cable: Looker. If you don't know it, it's a Michael Crichton directed film in which Albert Finney plays a Los Angeles plastic surgeon who gets caught up in a conspiracy involving an evil corporation that's killing models. Why? It's complicated. And it involves light guns and smoke guns, for some reason. Obviously, Blade Runner has proven more enduring, but Looker's a fascinating film in its own right, one filled with smart ideas that's still somehow pretty dumb.
To help us talk about it we turned to Max Evry, a long-serving film journalist with a particular affinity for '80s science fiction, as evidenced by his two books: A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch's Dune, an Oral History and Stranded on Earth: How Night Skies Became E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. (The latter comes out October 27th, but can pre-order it now.)
We hope you enjoy this side trip. And, once again, that Patreon link is: patreon.com/c/FordFocusPodcast.
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