Ridley Scott has the giggles. The revelation that I’m a New Yorker has prompted the legendary director to launch into a winding tale of the time he was on a traveling scholarship after graduating from London’s Royal College of Art. “They said, ‘Where do you want to go?’ And, being …
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“All art is autobiographical,” Federico Fellini once said. “The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” No one would accuse Napoleon, Ridley Scott’s two-and-a-half-hour epic (that’s the theatrical cut’s running time, mind you; there’s a four-hour version waiting in the wings as well) about the French dictator’s rise and fall, of being …
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Several crew members working on the Gladiator sequel were hospitalized in Morocco Wednesday following an accident that occurred during a stunt sequence. Variety reports that all of the impacted crew members suffered burn injuries, with four people sent to the hospital as a result of the accident, the details of …
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A Blade Runner sequel series was given the official go-head at Amazon, with the original film’s director, Ridley Scott, serving as an executive producer, Variety reports. Blade Runner 2099 will ostensibly be set 50 years after the events of Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel, Blade Runner 2049, and (as such) 80 …
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