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Sir Ridley Scott GBE (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. He is best known for directing films in the science fiction, crime and historical drama genres. His work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style.
Jul 13, 2024 · Ridley Scott is a British film director and producer whose movies are acclaimed for their visual style and rich details. His best-known films include The Duellists (1977), Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Legend (1985), Thelma & Louise (1991), Gladiator (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), The Martian (2015), The Last Duel (2021), and House of ...
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- The Duellists (1977), set in Napoleonic France, was Ridley Scott’s first film as a director. The movie won the best first-feature award at the Cann...
- Ridley Scott was nominated as best director for his film Thelma & Louise (1991), but he did not win that Oscar. (Jonathan Demme did instead.) Scott...
- Alien (1979), a science-fiction–horror story, and Blade Runner (1982), a dystopian neo-noir fable based on a Philip K. Dick novel and notable for S...
- The director of the sci-fi classic looks back at the original for its 35th anniversary while also preparing for Blade Runner 2049 -- and beyond.
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By Scott Collura
Posted: Jun 22, 2017 4:00 pm
This coming Monday will mark 35 years since the sci-fi classic Blade Runner was released. The date was June 25, 1982, and of course the genre was changed forever from then on, as director Ridley Scott and star Harrison Ford took us on a journey to the beautiful yet terrifying world of Los Angeles, 2019 -- a world of Replicants and futuristic private dicks and cold fish (though in the latter case, only in the theatrical cut!).
And now we’ll soon be returning to that world when Blade Runner 2049 is released this fall. To celebrate the anniversary of the original film as well as the upcoming sequel, I recently spoke to Ridley Scott about the legacy of Blade Runner and where he hopes to take the series in 2049 -- including his confirmation that there could be more sequels beyond that film. Ford returns in the film as former Blade Runner Rick Deckard, with Ryan Gosling also starring as Officer K, and Scott executive-producing while Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) directs.
But before we get to my chat with Ridley Scott, take a look at this behind-the-scenes piece on Blade Runner 2049 which also features brand new footage from the film:
IGN: I was hoping we could start by talking a bit about your influences when making the original Blade Runner 35 years ago. Everyone knows how influential the film has been since its release, but can you talk about what influenced you?
And so it was an amazing environment, and that stuck in my mind. It kind of influenced me in that direction, in terms of what will the populace be in the time that Blade Runner’s [set] in. It's not quite accurate, because 2017, we're nearly there. Well, we are there. And it's not Chinese at all. But there's a lot of mixed cultures … But I think that's one of the big things about it, was also I was spending a lot of time going to New York. That particular moment in the ’60s and ’70s, I did a lot of commercials.
It was medieval meets technology. ... And so it was an amazing environment, and that stuck in my mind.
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New York was always the city of overload. I thought it was smelly, dirty, and grungy. And therefore I didn't love it, but I figured it represented what we called retro-architecture. So mate, how the f#@k are you gonna clean these buildings? How do you clean the windows? It's impossible. So that became the backdrop of how the exterior, the world of Blade Runner, evolved, because originally the script that Hampton Fancher wrote was very, very good, [but] very much written as a lower budget film. Very much internalized and interiorized. It told [the story] in apartments where the one party would go out and return, and I said, “You know, what you're proposing in the story, you've got to go outside and see the world. See what that is.” So from that point on, I've never worked so much in all my life with a writer, the writer Hampton. And actually, it's probably one of the best experiences I've had with a writer. We worked for five bloody months on it, almost every day going through it, going through what we went through yesterday, and gradually he evolved it. So, in a funny kind of way, it was a very nice marriage of a very clever writer and a very visual director. So it was nice. It was one of my better experiences, I would say.
IGN: Is that why, as a producer on the sequel, you brought Fancher back?
RS: Immediately, I talked to him on the phone and he went, “Oh, s#!t, not again.” He still walks the walk, talks the talk. And from our first meeting, which was about a week and a bit, we formed a very nice, almost a 100-page novella, which tells the whole story of where we will be today. It's good. Very nice.
He began working with producer David Puttnam in the 1970s developing ideas for feature films. Their first joint endeavor, The Duellists (1977) won the Jury Prize for Best First Work at Cannes in 1977 and was nominated for the Palm d'Or, more than successfully launching Scott's feature film career.
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Dec 4, 2023 · Ridley Scott could not have picked a more exciting period in modern history to make a movie about. The years between 1789 and 1815 form one of the most crucial epochs of the last three centuries.
Jan 16, 2024 · Ridley Scott Has Something to Say About That: ‘Get a Life.’. As he goes into the final stretch with "Gladiator 2," the always-candid 86-year-old filmmaker shows no signs of slowing down. By...
