Kurt Russell stars in the 1998 American science fiction action film Soldier written by David Webb Peoples, who co-wrote the script for Blade Runner. Peoples considers Soldier to be a "sidequel"/spiritual successor to Blade Runner.[4] The film obliquely references various elements of stories written by Philip K. Dick (who wrote the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", on which Blade Runner is based), or film adaptations thereof. A "Spinner" vehicle from Blade Runner can be seen in the wreckage on a junk planet that features in Soldier.[5] The film co-stars Jason Scott Lee, Jason Isaacs, Connie Nielsen and Sean Pertwee, and was released in the United States on October 23, 1998.