Fancher wrote the initial screenplay, but later revisions of the script were handed to David Peoples.

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Mr. Fancher said the group underestimated how much it might be able to raise from foreign investors.

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However, I could see why Fancher may be reluctant to delve into the world of Blade Runner again.

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If patents don't create value, Fancher says, they do the opposite.

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ANA's chief Shinichiro Ito and Boeing vice-president Scott Fancher broke open barrels of sake with small hammers and passed it around to passengers as they boarded in Tokyo.

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Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher is in talks to pen an idea for an untitled sequel to the classic sci-fi film for director Ridley Scott and studio Alcon Entertainment.

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But if the latest rumor is true, our former nerd rage energy will be converted to nerd glee: Scott may be teaming up with the original screenwriter of Blade Runner, Hampton Fancher.

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In Las Vegas, Mr. Nazarian and Terry Fancher, a Stockbridge executive managing director, have struggled to find affordable financing for the Sahara project partly because a glut of new rooms have kept rates down.

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Proposal 2 "allows alumni to simply drop in on admissions committee members to lobby for a legacy policy, " while affirmative-action proponents must "hit the streets with petitions to amend the Michigan Constitution before they can have the same chance, " said Mark Fancher, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan's Racial Justice Project.

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