Sir Ridley Scott, the director and producer recognized for his work on franchises like Alien, Gladiator and Blade Runner, has seen his profession endure intense scrutiny in recent times. Movies like Home of Gucci and Napoleon have been very divisive amongst critics and audiences, and it wasn’t till final 12 months’s launch of Gladiator II that Scott was in a position to see considered one of his current films obtain a stable field workplace efficiency. Regardless, the 87-year-old Hollywood legend reveals no indicators of stopping, and has now teased a mysterious future venture. A venture that he calls the “finest” he has ever learn.
One in every of Scott’s finest and most underrated movies, Kingdom of Heaven, is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. The movie is about to be re-released on 4K, and the director talked to Collider concerning the historic struggle epic. The dialog quickly shifted to different essential topics, with Scott being requested if there was something he wished to work on sooner or later. And his reply reveals his plans for a mysterious Western…
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Whereas the famend filmmaker has labored throughout many genres, there are a couple of that Scott hasn’t tackled but. One in every of them is a Western, and whereas a few of his movies have included the style’s tropes, he hasn’t truly made a pure Western film. Whereas teasing his subsequent endeavor, Scott additionally talked about that it is the finest script he is ever learn within the style.
“So, I’ve a Western, which is one of the best Western I’ve ever learn. It was on a shelf of an creator who had died. It is from his property. We tracked it. I purchased the script, so I personal it, and the second will come to make it. So, I nonetheless must do a musical. I nonetheless must do a pirate film. I nonetheless must do a Western.”
Ridley Scott Has No Plans to Retire Any Time Quickly
Scott did not reveal the venture’s title “as a result of somebody will bounce in,” hinting that it might be a preferred property amongst different producers. The director additionally revealed that he’ll proceed to make films so long as he can. He is in no rush to leap onto his subsequent venture, and firmly believes within the timeliness of all of the tales he is set to inform sooner or later: “In the event that they’re ok, and you understand it is not the second as a result of everybody’s afraid of it, you retain it sitting, ready, after which come again.”
Lately, we reported the information that Scott seems like he is completed with the Alien franchise. His roles as director and producer in a number of of the time-consuming horror sci-fi movies have in all probability worn him down, however this does not imply that Scott will cease making films. In reality, the director is at present engaged on the manufacturing of his newest movie, the variation of Peter Heller’s apocalyptic sci-fi novel The Canine Stars. The movie stars Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Man Pearce and Benedict Wong, and it is set to be launched in March 2026.
Supply: Collider