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Guy Pearce told GQ a little bit about what he had to go through in the make-up chair for "Prometheus" and it does not sound like fun.

After an initial print run that sold out everywhere on December 10th, 2019, Alien: The Role-Playing Game is set to be distributed in seven other languages!

Keep in mind, we are not that far removed when Ridley Scott justified casting Whites in ethnic roles in Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) Paramount also lost the opportunity of creating or elevating an Asian actress with 2017's Ghost in the Shell Studio selected Scarlett Johansson selected to play "The Major." That's just two examples[...]

Mostly humbling moments rather than anything aggrandising – this is Britain after all. And Michel Sheen recounted being in Kingdom Of Heaven, written and directed by Ridley Scott, and going to the premiere at Leicester Square (the correct venue), walking along the red carpet and reliving the moment when 'Ridley Scott comes up to me, hello Michael,[...]

Hollywood legend Ridley Scott directed Hauer in the role in 1982's Blade Runner, which starred a still-on-the-rise Harrison Ford as Richard Deckard In honor of the late Dutch actor's passing, Scott released the following statement: "Rutger was the gentle giant I don't know who was more nervous on that first morning of the first day on[...]

Rather then telling the story from a 3,500 foot docu-drama level, I want to tell it from a very personal level, a micro level so that you feel like you're in the skin of these people and build an empathy for them…the terror you feel watching your favorite horror movie will be analogous to the[...]

Gibson's ideas were recycled and used in the Joss Whedon-scripted Alien: Resurrection and Ridley Scott's recent prequels Prometheus and Alien: Covenant. Last year, Fox granted permission for Gibson's screenplay to be adapted into a Dark Horse comic and for Audible to make into an audio play Producer-director Dirk Maggs has been producing audio drama adaptations from comics[...]

Imagine if you will, a world where Ridley Scott DIDN'T direct the 1979 science fiction-horror classic, because it almost happened He was actually the 4th choice to tackle the movie, which was his second feature-length film. Director Ridley Scott talks about Prometheus at WonderCon 2012 Photo by Mary Anne Butler. "I was the fourth choice," Scott told Variety[...]

Almost everyone in the cast (who are still with us in this lifetime) still speaks about that experience on the Nostromo with a reverence and respect, almost everyone learned something while working with Ridley Scott and crew that's stayed with them. Tom Skerritt, bearded Captain Dallas of the Company's tugboat for the larger refinery vessel it tows, says[...]

Back in 2017, Sir Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions and Tom Hardy's Hardy Son & Baker announced a join project with the BBC to bring a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale "A Christmas Carol" to television We haven't really heard anything about it since then, until this morning's announcement that FX has partnered with BBC[...]

Remember when we told you earlier this year that to celebrate the landmark 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's genre-defining film Alien, and that we were getting a crop of short films released on LV-426?  That day has some, fans of Ellen Ripely, that day has come. The first of the 6 short films released by FOX via IGN[...]

Remember that AMAZING North Bergen High School spring performance of Alien that got universe-wide attention? Well, thanks to Ridley Scott and Scott Free Productions' generous donation to the drama club, an encore performance of Alien: The Play is in the works for a notable date in the Xenomorph franchise. According to the official Alien Twitter account, the performance will[...]

They did it all with recycled materials, and the result was an incredible tribute and production. We cannot get over the quality of sets and costumes, all of which were apparently made from recycled materials. JUST LOOK AT THE SPACE JOCKEY. And, what's Alien without the iconic dinner scene? Wonder if they chose not to tell the actress[...]

As painful as it is to imaging that a full forty years have passed since Ridley Scott's masterpiece of science fiction horror, Alien, first appears on the big screen, we can ease that feeling knowing that 20th Century Fox is about to wow us with an all-new remastering into an UltraHD 4K HDR release. The film[...]

Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Ridley Scott ("The Martian," "Gladiator") and writer/director Matt Reeves ("Dawn of the Planet of the Apes," "Cloverfield"), THE PASSAGE focuses on Project Noah, a secret medical facility where scientists are experimenting with a dangerous virus that could lead to the cure for all[...]

Director Sir Ridley Scott's (Gladiator, Blade Runner) future – and the future of a human colony – lies with TNT, as the cable network has announced a straight-to-series order for sci-fi drama Raised by Wolves. With Scott set to direct and Aaron Guzikowski (Prisoners, The Red Road) writing, the series focuses on two androids tasked with raising human[...]

Have you always wanted to pitch your idea for an Alien film? Well, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Sir Ridley Scott's science fiction masterpiece, 20th Century Fox is partnering with online creative network Tongal to find filmmakers to produce shorts set after the events of the original Alien movie. Twentieth Century Fox Film Chief Brand Officer Beth Goss said: "Alien has[...]

April 26th somewhere along the line became Alien Day, a celebration of Ripley, Weyland Yutani, and the Xenomorphs who love them.  First released in 1979, the groundbreaking space horror film directed by Sir Ridley Scott blew the airlock doors off what a female lead could do and be in such a movie. To be fair, LV-426 is[...]

We talk a lot about the filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott, mostly because the man really has created some iconic pictures and continues to prove how good at the craft he really is One of the nice things is that lately, Scott talks He's made himself infinitely more available for interviews and has no problem talking about[...]

A film adaptation of the Oni Press comics series created and written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by various artists may have found its director, and you won't believe it — he was Ridley Scott this whole time! We knew they should have just retraced their steps According to a report from sandwich-themed Hollywood gossip[...]

On the television side, Cutmore-Scott has appeared in Fox's Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life; Fox's comedy pilot Cabot College, produced by Tina Fey; and Showtime pilot Vatican, from Ridley Scott. Over the course of round table interview, Cutmore-Scott covered a wide range of subjects including: the importance of having on-screen and off-screen chemistry on a set;[...]

Production on the series began earlier this month on location throughout Los Angeles. Stemming from Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions and CBS TV Studios, the 1930s-set series Strange Angel gets its inspiration from the true-life story of Jack Parsons (Reynor) and is described as exploring "the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction." Here's the official backstory[...]

All the Money in the World has been in the public eye a lot over the last few months, director Ridley Scott opting to recast and reshoot a main role after the messy Kevin Spacey allegations mere days before a final cut needed to be delivered The 80-year-old Brit scoffed at the majority of "is this even[...]

Ridley Scott, director of the Alien franchise, is one of those people He recently spoke to Digital Spy about the Fox-Disney deal and that he hopes that Alien franchise will continue. "It looks to me that the Fox deal is certainly going to go ahead with Disney, and I've been with Fox for a number years[...]

Anytime Sir Ridley Scott gives an interview, it seems to be peppered with nuggets of perplexing gold.  There was the Alien should be bigger than Star Wars and Star Trek line, the "I'm too dangerous for Star Wars" why he wouldn't direct one line, and the "Blade Runner 2049 didn't do well because it was too f***ing long" line. In another chat with the[...]

Deadline just reported that Oscar-nominated director Ridley Scott is in talks to finalize the finer points of a deal to adapt the story of the wizard Merlin Based on the T.A Barron book series about arguably one of the most famous wizards in lore, The Merlin Saga would follow the magic-slinger during the years long before King[...]

Heinlein, and without them, there wouldn't be Lucas, Spielberg, Ridley Scott or me As a filmmaker who specializes in science fiction, I'm interested in exploring the struggles and the triumphs that brought these incredible stories to life and seeing how art imitates life, as well as how science fiction imitates and sometimes informs science." Produced by[...]

Ridley Scott, widely known as the "bad boy" of science fiction movie direction, is far too much of a dangerous, sexy bad boy to direct a Star Wars flick Just ask him! Scott was speaking with bird-themed pop culture website Vulture, where he mainly talked about why Blade Runner 2049 bombed at the box office But[...]

The last few years' filmography from Sir Ridley Scott has been….interesting….with some notable misses and at least one pleasant surprise, his movie magic prowess is world renowned. Directors Sir Ridley Scott and Denis Villeneuve during the British premiere of Blade Runner 2049, photo from the BFI (British Film Institute) twitter. Of course one the titles most synonymous[...]

Credit: Aidan Monaghan/AMC AMC is taking to the high seas for their next tale of terror, confirming a release date for Ridley Scott's thriller series The Terror, while also releasing a teaser trailer and first-look images Based on Dan Simmons's novel and executive produced by Scott, David Kajganich, and Soo Hugh, the two-hour season premiere of the[...]