Hey guys Adam Savage here, I am at the entrance to a former granite quarry and I'm about to go inside
But I'm not just going inside a granite quarry, which happens to be in Budapest Hungary
Inside this quarry is in fact the future
Okay I'm going to stop being cryptic about it inside this quarry
Is the universe of Blade Runner and I'm gonna go take a look come with me
This Quarry has been dressed up to be a set from Blade Runner
They've gathered vehicles, props, set pieces
Extras and actor Dave Batista to shoot a sequence that's not officially part of the Blade Runner 2049 film
But is set within the Blade Runner universe
And they have done all of this set dressing in a mere two and a half days
It's an astounding achievement and it looks really cool
In a movie like Blade Runner where they have to create a complete cohesive world
They build thousands and thousands of props to dress that world and make it convincing
Now some of those props are what you'd call static props
They look like they move but they don't and they're for background dressing
But some of those props are actually usable devices
And I'm standing in one right now
This is a street sweeper that's been built from scratch for the production
It's based off a quad design, it's an electric engine
And I've gotten permission to actually drive it
And so I'm gonna use that permission and I'm gonna actually drive it!
Here we go
Aww yeah
Aww, this is awesome!
I'm gonna watch the movie and I'm gonna see this vehicle and I'm gonna be like "I drove that one!"
**Evil laughter**
I'm gonna go a little bit farther. Just, how about there? Okay
What I love about props like this is, how convincingly they sell the world that they're in
Every detail on this was drawn on a drawing board and figured it out by someone to be part of the aesthetics
Of Los Angeles and Blade Runner in 2049
So even the machine plate here
It's totally fictitious. All of this signage was worked over by designers
And figured out, cut out, and vinyl attached
This is sheet metal and fiberglass. It's a real vehicle
Except that it's completely fictional
And as a fictional vehicle all the weathering even the dirt on it is fake
And yet when you're really right up and close to it, it feels like you're in a
Alternate Reality
This particular street sweeper is meant to clear snow
And so it's got these snow blades up front
I can feel that they're made out of sheet metal
I mean, it this really feels like you could actually clear a snow bank with this if you had to
And I've got to be careful because right behind me
Is some spinning metal blades that look like
Yeah
That could actually cause me genuine damage for a fictional vehicle
One of the differences about movie making today versus 15 or 20 years ago
Is that movies are being filmed in higher and higher resolutions
Which means more and more details from the set are making It onto the screen
That means that the scenic painting has to sell even when you're standing right next to it
20 years ago it might look good on film and look a little weird in person. Today that's not the case
If you look at something like this pipe, that looks really greasy
It's totally not greased, that's all scenic painting
Layered in, layers and layers and layers
Of the kind of body weathering and Earth grime
That would attach itself to a vehicle like this if it was in real use
You want eyeballs?
Let's see I...
Now we are fresh out of eyeballs
What we have plenty of
Is the ingenuity and enthusiasm of an incredible crew, working tirelessly to make
What when you're in it, feels like a complete and total universe
It's Blade Runner 2049,
And it's amazing