5 d. ago Ridley Scott reveals he turned down a $20m offer to make Terminator 3

‘I can’t be bought,’ director said

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5 d. ago ‘I turned down $20m to do Terminator 3. I can’t be bought, dude’: Ridley Scott on directing, Daleks and ... cherry jam

The Blade Runner and Alien film-maker on his run-ins with critics, the space suits he keeps in his cellar in France – and his love of swearingYou’ve explored worlds of dystopia, historical epics and perplexing moral aspects of the universe. What idea or question has haunted you the longest? RemyNaylorWho’s up there. He’d better show himself shortly, because we’re getting into a terrible mess down here. I mean, we are the fucking plague, 7.5 billion people, we can’t handle the planet. As you get older, you do wonder: is it going to be a guy with a long beard and long, flowing white robes, or is it just going to be a void? I don’t dwell on it. It’s weird. I feel like I’m still 21. It’s odd and strange.Did you score a lifetime’s supply of bread for directing the Hovis adverts back in the 70s? TeeDubyaBeeNo. But I ate enough Hovis as a kid in Stockton-on-Tees, with cherry jam and butter, toasted – holy shit. I did five Hovis commercials. They were all classics. The most famous is the bo...

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6 d. ago 'One of greatest movies ever made' but fans have just days to watch on BBC

Ridley Scott's epic historical drama, Gladiator, is currently available to stream for free on BBC iPlayer, but only for a limited time - here's how to watch it

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7 d. ago The monstrosity of mankind: in Alien: Earth, the real villain is humanity

Noah Hawley’s thrilling new series set in the Alien universe dares to suggest that there might be something worse than a xenomorph There was a time when nothing in cinema was more frightening than a xenomorph. HR Giger’s nightmarish biomechanical hellspawn, dripping with fluids and Freudian discharge, was the gruesome, undisputed apex predator of movie monsters. It burst from your chest; it dissolved your face with acid; it splintered your ribcage like a piñata filled with blood and screams. It was unstoppable, unknowable, the kind of thing you’d expect to find at the bottom of your dishwasher after leaving it closed for 36 centuries.The early films, 1979’s Alien and 1986’s Aliens, rarely steered too far away from the sense that these infernal creatures were the worst thing you could possibly encounter in the universe. Later on, in Ridley Scott’s ultimately rather pointless prequels, Prometheus and Alien: Covenant, the godlike Engineers and David the Android grasped the mantle of co...

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1 week ago UK health secretary ends talks with pharma groups on NHS drug pricing

Wes Streeting terminates meetings after lobby group refuses to accept offer

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3 w. ago Alien: Earth creator explains one major change he made to iconic sci

The new sci-fi horror series Alien: Earth makes some huge changes to the franchise based on Ridley Scott’s original 1970s masterpiece

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3 w. ago Alien: Earth – Ridley Scott’s terrifying space monster finally comes to TV and it’s properly creepy

The most cinematic evil creature ever comes to the small screen, courtesy of the brains behind the excellent revamp of Fargo. It’s a dread-packed, gory watch that’s hugely entertaining‘I am human, and nothing human is alien to me,” wrote Roman playwright Terence in 165BC. He hadn’t seen any of the Alien films, though. He hadn’t seen Alien or Aliens or Alien 3 , he hadn’t seen any of the Predator crossover canon, he hadn’t seen Resurrection or Prometheus or the one after Prometheus. He hadn’t even seen Alien: Romulus, even though it’s named after the guy who co-founded Rome. The Oscar-winning franchise has earned well over a billion dollars worldwide. There’s nothing more human than loving Alien.Part of the franchise’s success is its malleability. A creature-horror stuffed with Freudian nightmare, the films blend action, sci-fi, theology and satire. (I don’t want to be Frankenstein’s Pedant about it, but the monster is the profit-driven corporation determined to bring the alien to Ea...

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4 w. ago Alien: Earth review: 'instant TV classic splices body horror with AI angst'

This new series on Disney is a prequel to the original Ridley Scott film that both echoes its brilliance and takes the Alien franchise into new territory to tackle contemporary tech angst

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4 w. ago Alien: Earth review: 'instant classic body horror epic about AI angst'

This new series on Disney is a prequel to the original Ridley Scott film that both echoes its brilliance and takes the Alien franchise into new territory to tackle contemporary tech angst

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