The film is getting a director's cut theatrical release this summer and a special edition DVD in the fall, and it's gone from box-office bust to renowned cult object, perhaps the most highly revered adaptation of a Philip K. It's also the gift that keeps giving, 25 years later. He played Roy Batty, a genius replicant pursued by detective Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford. Ridley Scott's 1982 film - about a hard-boiled detective pursuing "replicants," genetically engineered androids, in rainy, environmentally despoiled 21st-century Los Angeles - made Hauer's name. The next opportunity to come along was "Blade Runner." He didn't want to be typecast, and he didn't want to devote more than a year of his life to a project, so he passed. He had even made an impression on American audiences with his performance as a German terrorist in the Sylvester Stallone action film "Nighthawks."īut had he taken "Das Boot," he writes in his new memoir, "All Those Moments" (HarperCollins co-written with Patrick Quinlan), he "would have been committed to a long shoot" - 14 months, as "Das Boot" was released as a miniseries in Europe - and yet another role as a German.
He was a leading Dutch film star, having appeared in the country's first smash TV show, "Floris," and two big European movies, "Turkish Delight" and Paul Verhoeven's "Soldier of Orange."
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Some producers wanted him to star in a movie about a German U-boat called "Das Boot." (CNN) - In the early 1980s, Rutger Hauer had a choice.
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