Ridley Scott’s influential adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? defined a new standard for the science-fiction genre through its mesmerizing, noirish vision of a dystopic future. In a decaying, hi-tech Los Angeles of 2019, former cop Rick Deckard (Ford) is charged with terminating a group of renegade "skin jobs"—genetically engineered androids who have returned to earth from the colonies they were sent to serve. Spectacular sets designed by Syd Mead and Lawrence G. Paull helped Scott to achieve his vision for a "film set forty years hence, made in the style of forty years ago."