Having Greenlit's "foreign" in Fox before leaving the studio, Rilli knew that Ridley Scott was a genius in the world, who, when armed with a great scenario, could deliver an stunningly original blockbuster. "Blade Runner" was original. And brilliantly. And one of the most influential films ever made. Unfortunately, Warner Bros. could not understand how to sell it during a wild competitive summer 1982, which led to a $ 30 million production of $ 42 million.

The unusual news for the company Ladd was that they would share the financial burden of Blade Runner by Tandem Productions by Sir Run Run Shaw and Bud Yorkin. Everyone lost money, but no one was bathing. The same cannot be said a year later, when the Lad company spilled $ 27 million in making Philip Kaufman's "real things". Adaptation of Tom Wolf's masterful account of the Mercury project of the United States project, which launched the Earth's space program, captures the film "Because it is there" Ethos of the US research-there is no moral attachment here because it is not in space.

Kaufman's film is a smooth mix of different film formats, inventive optical FX and submerged sound design. It remains one of the busiest films ever made. Oh yes, and there is an actor killer containing Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Kwaid, Fred Ward, Sam Shepard, Barbara Hershey, Effef Goldblum and, seriously, I just sin the surface. The problem for the Ladd company was that none of these people were movie stars in 1983, and Moviegoers opposed the 192 minute shelf life (although it is easily the most fun three -hour film ever made).

"Right things" failed to start a $ 21 million home -made gross, which proved to be a manicure in the coffin for Lad. It was such an expensive failure that even the surprise of $ 150 million in the 1984 Police Academy (against a $ 5 million budget) could not persuade the SB to hold a refreshment.

This was not the end for Alan Lad Runior as a producer, however - far from it. He reconstructed the company Ladd to a much smaller scale in Paramount in 1995, and threw a hit with Brady Bunch Movie and winner of blockbuster with the best image winner with Mel Gibson's "Braveheart". This was a sweet justification for the cool, but it was also bitter, because every director who once worked with Hollywood legend, from Lucas to Kaufman to Gibson, would tell you that he was a direct shooter who believed in his directors and concentrated his efforts to protect him from the executive. He was a rare race, and today's films would look very different if he never worked in the industry.