Best Sci-Fi Movie Posters UK — Blade Runner, Gravity & More

Ridley Scott · Denis Villeneuve · Alfonso Cuarón · Duncan Jones — museum-grade science fiction film prints from £3

Science fiction cinema is the genre of ideas made visual: the film that asks "what if?" and then shows you the answer with a budget, a crew and a cinematographer. The finest sci-fi films — Blade Runner (1982), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Gravity (2013), Moon (2009), Blade Runner 2049 (2017) — are films whose visual imaginations have shaped how we think about the future, about technology, about what it means to be human. At 98types Camden, confirmed sci-fi film poster products include Blade Runner (1982), Blade Runner 2049, Gravity and Moon, all on 260gsm museum-grade archival matte paper. From £3, buy 3 get 1 free, same-day dispatch from Market Hall, Camden Lock Place, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8AL.

🛸 Blade Runner (1982) — The Most Influential Sci-Fi Film Ever Made

Blade Runner (1982), directed by Ridley Scott and adapted from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), is the most visually influential science fiction film ever made. The film's production design — by Lawrence G. Paull, with visual futurist Syd Mead's input — established the cyberpunk aesthetic: the rain-soaked, neon-lit, densely overpopulated city of 2019 Los Angeles where Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard hunts replicants. The question the film refuses to definitively answer — is Deckard himself a replicant? — is the most debated ambiguity in cinema history. Blade Runner's visual DNA can be found in Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix, Dark City, Cyberpunk 2077, Altered Carbon, and every major cyberpunk work produced since 1982.

Blade Runner 2049 (2017) — The Worthy Sequel

Blade Runner 2049 (2017), directed by Denis Villeneuve, received 88/100 on Metacritic and won two Academy Awards (Best Cinematography for Roger Deakins, Best Visual Effects). Set thirty years after the original, with Ryan Gosling's K discovering evidence that a replicant has given birth, Blade Runner 2049 expands the world of the original without diminishing it. Roger Deakins' cinematography — the radioactive orange of the Las Vegas wasteland, the cold blue of K's apartment, the grey of San Diego's protein farm — is among the finest work in contemporary cinema. The film was a commercial disappointment (budget: $150M; worldwide gross: $260M) but a critical and artistic triumph.

Gravity (2013) — The Technical Achievement

Gravity (2013), directed by Alfonso Cuarón, received 96/100 on Metacritic, won seven Academy Awards including Best Director, Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki) and Best Visual Effects, and grossed $723M worldwide. The film follows Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) — a mission specialist on her first spacewalk — and Matt Kowalski (George Clooney) after their Space Shuttle is destroyed by orbital debris. Its unbroken 13-minute opening shot, its use of simulated zero-gravity and its visual depiction of orbital mechanics were technical achievements unprecedented in mainstream cinema.

Moon (2009) — The Indie Sci-Fi Masterpiece

Moon (2009), directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell, was produced for $5 million and received 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. Sam Bell is approaching the end of a three-year solitary contract on the lunar surface, mining helium-3 for Earth's energy needs, when he discovers something that fundamentally challenges his understanding of who and where he is. Moon is the finest low-budget sci-fi film since 2001: A Space Odyssey's spirit — a philosophical narrative about isolation, identity and corporate exploitation, told with practical sets, a single actor and a Clint Mansell score. The Moon poster at 98types captures the film's stark, minimalist lunar aesthetic.