When AMC announced its new pop culture docuseries, Visionaries, at the Television Critics Association 2017 summer press tour, the network made it clear that these explorations of genres and media would be informative, but informal—expansive, but specific to whatever prominent filmmaker or producer was at the helm of a…
Watching the new trailer for AMC’s upcoming miniseries The Terror, based on Dan Simmons’ novel of the same name, a few thoughts immediately come to mind:
Ridley Scott has previously indicated that he was proud of how the cast and crew of All The Money In The World came together to reshoot the film with Christopher Plummer in place of Kevin Spacey, when Spacey was dropped from the project after a number of actors accused him of sexual assault and harassment. Scott even…
According to Variety, Ridley Scott is currently in talks to direct Disney’s The Merlin Saga, a movie based on T.A. Barron’s books about the young magic guy who would eventually became a famous magic guy. Variety’s sources say that a deal hasn’t been made yet, but they think it’ll be Scott’s next movie if the deal does…
Whatever else can be said about Ridley Scott’s ripped-from-the-headlines thriller All The Money In The World, you’d never guess—if you didn’t know already—that one of its key roles was occupied by an entirely different actor just six weeks ago. Gone is Kevin Spacey, who buried himself deeply under mounds of old-age…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony has pushed the release date of Ridley Scott’s All The Money In The World—a movie that does not have Kevin Spacey in it, so don’t bring up Kevin Spacey—from December 22 to December 25. Apparently, this has nothing to do with any Kevin Spacey-related controversies (because he’s…
Hollywood is facing a long-overdue campaign of housecleaning at the moment, as decades-worth of accusations of sexual harassment and assault against powerful men are finally coming to light (and actually being listened to, for once). This sweeping out of the alleged bums has had any number of knock-on effects in the…
It’s nowhere near as long, detailed, or accompanied by a Zombies song as the first preview for Ridley Scott’s kidnapping drama, but the new All The Money In The World trailer now has Christopher Plummer in the role of J. Paul Getty.
In a move that makes it pretty obvious just how poisonous Kevin Spacey has become since the allegations about him sexually assaulting underage boys came out, Ridley Scott and Imperative Entertainment have decided to completely remove Spacey from All The Money In The World, a movie that was not only finished, but also …
With the highly anticipated sequel hitting theaters this weekend, today is pretty much the last day you can reflect on the themes and philosophical implications of 1982’s Blade Runner before whatever is going to happen in Blade Runner 2049 completely changes what you think. The original Ridley Scott feature is not…
After 35 years of science-fiction movies only inspired by—or blatantly derivative of—Ridley Scott’s landmark dystopian noir, they finally made another Blade Runner: a nearly three-hour, big-budget art movie masquerading as a blockbuster, starring Ryan Gosling as a new era’s robot-hunting answer to Harrison Ford (who…
In Page To Screen, we compare a movie to the book that spawned it. The analysis goes into deep detail about specific plot points—in other words, you’ve been warned.
The first trailer for Ridley Scott’s new historical kidnapping drama All The Money In The World arrived on the internet today, treating the world to Kevin Spacey’s most dramatic transformation since his talking cat movie Nine Lives. Spacey plays crusty old oil tycoon J. Paul Getty, the wealthy, craggy-faced…
It was 40 years ago today that The Duellists, a visually accomplished adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story made by a relative unknown named Ridley Scott, opened in French theaters, having already won a special prize at that year’s Cannes Film Festival. It would come to Scott’s native United Kingdom later that…
Now that the first Blade Runner 2049 trailer has (mostly) set minds at ease about this follow-up to the 1982 sci-fi classic, Warner Bros. has released a new preview that delves further into the first meeting between Deckard (Harrison Ford) and LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling). The aging replicant tells the increasingly…
Now that he’s gone all in on Alien, Ridley Scott is completely sold on the idea of expansive franchises, which could be the future of Blade Runner. In an interview with IGN, he suggested that, sure, he’d be into the idea of making more movies in that world after the upcoming Blade Runner 2049. Asked whether he’d…
According to Deadline, David Mamet is currently in talks to write an adaptation of Don Winslow’s The Force, with Logan’s James Mangold set to direct the adaptation once it’s written. Plus, if those big names aren’t enough for you, the film will be produced by Ridley Scott and his Scott Free production company. The…
According to Deadline, Netflix has picked up the adaptation rights to Hello America, J.G. Ballard’s 1981 sci-fi novel about a group of explorers rediscovering the ruins of the United States a century after the country collapsed and most of the citizens evacuated to Europe and Asia. Along the way, they face the sort of…
In addition to some big news about its Snowpiercer pilot, TNT has announced development on multiple new projects that run the gamut from a sci-fi block to a new docu-series with the combined acumen of Morgan Spurlock and Sarah Jessica Parker. The network has tapped legendary director Ridley Scott to lead a night of…
There are gross and eerie stretches in Ridley Scott’s new film, Alien: Covenant, that come closer to straight horror than any movie in this widely imitated sci-fi series has gotten since Scott’s original Alien—though maybe not the kind of horror that any devotee of all things Alien would expect. It is barely a monster…
