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It survived a critical drubbing, a box-office belly-flop, fights between its director and producers and decades of behind-the-scenes battles over who should control its destiny.
Now, 35 years after it made its debut on the big screen, “Blade Runner” is back, trying to prove there’s still life in a franchise that asks what it means to be human.
For aficionados of cinema, it’s tough to believe “Blade Runner” was widely…