You have certainly happened to talk to someone who at some point begins a sentence (which often doesn't end) with 'I've seen things that you humans…'.
Or maybe you said it yourself.
It's irrefutable proof (certainly not the only one) that the thing you were inspired by is at least a cult, at best a classic.
And that thing is
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott's 1982 film
that changed science fiction but would be hard-pressed to simply define a film of (a certain) genre.
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A complex gestation (there was a 1968 book,
Do the Adroids dream Of electric sheep?, by Philip Dick
- and the film will contribute greatly to making Dick that cult author who is still today far beyond the confines of cyberpunk – but there was also another one, by William Borroughs, which was an attempt at a screenplay based on yet another book, by
Alan E. Nourse
entitled The Bladerunner);
heavy interventions by the production (not always negative: the voice off was imposed on the director to 'explain' what was happening and it is one of the elements that characterizes the film);
sequences 'given' by another director (
Stanley Kubrick
, not just any);
versions upon versions (there are seven, including the director's cut with the ending he wanted
Scott
and not with the happy one desired by the producers);
an ungovernable actress,
Sean Young
(the replicant Rachel), a victim of alcohol and protagonist of several excesses;
a bleak debut at the box office.
In short, all the ingredients for a bright future: which in fact arrived.
Perhaps because, as we try to explain with
Mario Sesti
in the podcast on the 40th anniversary of the film (which had a modest sequel by Denis Villenueve in 2017), it tries to answer one of man's fundamental questions: what kind of life do we live and what would we like to live ?