The long and short of the Blade Runner SE is a man name Jerry Perincho, who was a producer on the film is a very spiteful and hateful man and has been deliberately holding up the release for god knows how many years.
Ridley's idea of a SE has been spoken about before and there is a video clip floating around where Ridley was talking about the DVD SE. From the way he was describing it, it was shaping up to be something similar to the
Brazil set put together by the Criterion Collection first on LD and then ported to DVD.
Over at this
site. It's a good collection of talk and discussion about the potential release of the film on DVD though some of the links are a bit old now. There is also
Bladezone, another valuable
Blade Runner website.
Perhaps the coolest addition they could put on the eventual Special Ediion DVD would be the
Work Print of
Blade Runner. Over at Bladezone they have a detailed analysis of the work print. It's been let out of the Warner Brother's vaults once or twice over the years. In January of 1999 I had the opportunity to see this cut up in Seattle at the Egyptian Theater. The work print had been sent there by mistake as the theater had booked a 70MM print of the original cut of
Blade Runner and got the work print instead. I learned about it via the Blade Runner newsgroup and made the drive from Portland to Seattle to see and it was totally worth it and was one of the best cinematic experiences I've had.
Here is some info on the infamous
work print.
It's the same film, but it's full of lots of little differences and the last half of the film's score is Jerry Goldsmith' score from
Alien as Vangelis hadn't completed the film's soundtrack yet. It was used to test screen the film in early 1982 in Denver and I believe. When it was later unearthed in a vault, it became the basis for
Director's Cut release.
For those interested in all things
Blade Runner there is the book
Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon. It's definently worth a read if you're an obsessive fan.