That same year, Edward James Olmos, Brion James, and William Sanderson appeared in Blade Runner (1982).
The author of the book, Américo Paredes, hated this movie. According to Paredes, Gregorio Cortez did not shed one tear while he was in jail and yet, Cortez cries in the movie. Anytime someone would ask him his thoughts about the movie, he would be so angry about it that he would refuse to discuss the movie and instead, would have his wife tell them why he disliked it.
The film was such important a project to Edward James Olmos that he actually ran it in an L.A. theater free of charge to encourage attendance.
Shot in five weeks in 1980. Post-production on this film lasted nine months.