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Ridley Scott is at work on Blade Runner: The Final Cut, a "definitive" version of his 25-year-old sci-fier remastered from original elements and containing never-seen and extended scenes. Per the Reporter, the film hits select theaters Oct. 5, then DVDs Dec. 18.... Tim Blake Nelson has joined The Incredible Hulk in the role of scientist Samuel Sterns aka The Leader aka he of the oversized brain.... Per Variety, DreamWorks has grabbed film rights to the comic-book series The Damned and Courtney Crumrin.... Guy Ritchie plans to direct a film version of his Gatekeeper Virgin Comics series.... Brad Pitt may reunite with Gwyneth Paltrow for the Watergate-themed Dirty Tricks, says the New York Post.
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Ridley Scott may be one of the most respected filmmakers of the last thirty years due to his incredibly diverse collection of movies, many of which have defined their respective genres. He's gained many fans from his body of work, which includes everything from Alien and Blade Runner to his more recent epics Gladiator and Black Hawk Down. Scott may be making a huge sprawling war movie like Kingdom of Heaven one minute, but then he'll often do something smaller and more character-driven the next. His latest movie A Good Year leans more towards the latter, but it reunites him with Russell Crowe, the actor with whom Scott has shared one of his greatest successes and whom he is becoming increasingly more linked to, as they continue to work together.
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The movie will mark the FOURTH time Ridley Scott has directed Russell Crowe. The first time saw Crowe win an Oscar and Scott receive a nomination for the first real classic of the new century with Gladiator in the year 2000. They had rather less success with their second pairing towards the end of last year, as the comedy movie A Good Year flopped with both critics and audiences.
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As befits a gruff, nononsense Teessider, Ridley Scott has always been far more in touch with his audience - the bums on seats - than with critics or cineastes. The latter have a tendency to turn up their effete noses whenever Scott’s name comes up in polite conversation. Even as audiences flocked to his latest film, American Gangster, which tore up the box office when it opened in the States last weekend, earning a huge $46.3m in three days, the critics couldn’t bring themselves to praise Scott unreservedly. Of course, they admired American Gangster, which stars Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, for its “consummate professionalism on every level”, as the critic for the film trade paper Variety put it, but, he added: “It just doesn’t quite feel like the real deal; it delivers, but doesn’t soar.”
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Ridley Scott needs a hit just as badly as anyone else. A Good Year vanished without trace, Kingdom Of Heaven underperformed badly and Matchstick Men will go down in history as one of the many Nicolas Cage films sadly not featuring any bear-dressed woman-punching. But at least Brian Grazer from 24, Arrested Development, A Beautiful Mind and Kindergarten Cop will be producing to keep everyone in line.
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At age 69, Ridley Scott is finally satisfied with his most challenging film. He's still turning out movies at a furious pace — American Gangster, with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe, is due in November — building on an extraordinary oeuvre that includes Alien, Thelma & Louise, Gladiator, and Black Hawk Down. But he seems ready to accept Blade Runner as his crowning achievement. In his northern English accent, he describes its genesis and lasting influence. And, inevitably, he returns to the darkness that pervades his view of the future — the shadows that shield Deckard from a reality that may be too disturbing to face."
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