Ridley Scott Reveals Someone 'Stole' Original VoightKampff Machine from "Blade Runner" Set Meredith WilshereAugust 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Harrison Ford on the set of "Blade Runner" Ridley Scott shares that the original VoightKampff machine from Blade Runner was stolen...
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Meredith WilshereAugust 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Ridley Scott shares that the original Voight-Kampff machine from Blade Runner was stolen
In a conversation with The Guardian, the director revealed he's now more willing to take things from set and keep them in his collection
He owns the spacesuits from Alien, The Martian and Prometheus
Props go missing from sets all the time, and although he never used to take things, director and filmmaker Ridley Scott says he has since changed his tune after realizing how valuable they could be.
In a conversation with The Guardian, Scott, 87, revealed that he's never been able to take the Voight-Kampff test from Blade Runner himself because "some bastard stole it from the set."
"When it appears on the market, I'm going to go after them like a rat up a drainpipe," Scott told the outlet.
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Harrison Ford on the set of "Blade Runner"
The Voight-Kampff is a polygraph-like machine test used in the movie as a way to distinguish replicants, bioengineered humanoids, from humans based on their emotional responses to questions. The fictional tool measures things like heart rate, eye movement, and respiration in response to empathy-driven questions.
Since Scott missed his window to own the prop, he shared that he's now more willing to take things from sets.
"I never used to take things. I'd think: 'I'm done, move on,'" he said. "Now, I realize I should, because they go into storerooms and get lost forever."
"I get permission to take things and put space suits from movies in my vineyard in France. I've got a space suit from The Martian. I've got an original space suit from Alien. Can you imagine what that's worth? Two from Prometheus."
He shared that everything he's kept is stored in his "barrel room," which is "the perfect place for a museum."
Blade Runner was released in 1982 and starred Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos and Daryl Hannah.
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Harrison Ford and Ridley Scott on the set of "Blade Runner"
Earlier this year, in a retrospective interview for GQ magazine, Scott said he had to convince those funding his film that Ford was a good choice as the leading man.
At the time of Blade Runner's casting, Scott said Ford was not yet "a star" — despite portraying Han Solo in 1977's Star Wars and Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981.
"He had just finished flying the Millennium Falcon in Star Wars," the director told the outlet. "I remember my financiers saying, 'Who the f--- is Harrison Ford?' And I said, 'You're going to find out.' So Harry became my leading man."
Blade Runner is available to rent on Amazon Prime Video.
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