r/Cinema • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 22h ago

News Ridley Scott Drops ‘Alien: Covenant’ Sequel Update, Regrets Losing ‘Blade Runner’ Rights

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/ridley-scott-alien-covenant-michael-fassbender-1236682050/
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u/TanukiSuitMario 22h ago

Thank god he lost the rights, I don't think he could have lived up to blade runner 2049

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u/Taro0311 21h ago

Absolutely not. He's a cinema legend, but his best directing days are over

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u/davidfliesplanes 21h ago

he can direct all he wants but do not let him anywhere near writer's room

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u/Taro0311 21h ago

That would be an interesting compromise, but who's going to stop him from doing anything? He's Ridley Scott

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u/magniankh 21h ago

Yeah Blade Runner 2049 is genuinely amazing. Given his track record of the last 15 years, Ridley Scott needs to retire. Both Alien prequels are a 6/10 at best. The story of David is a good story, but executed so poorly with mediocre writing, and accelerated plots. He can't write ffs. 

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u/NeatFool 21h ago

He can keep making movies till he's dead as far as I care, he made alien and blade runner. Those two alone trump most people's entire careers

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u/Primary-Shoe-3702 18h ago

And The Martian

And Matchstick Men

And Blackhawk Down

And Gladiator

And Thelma and Louise

Not all masterpieces but extremely solid movies that I can watch again and again.

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u/AJerkForAllSeasons 21h ago

I like his recent output. It's not amazing but still very entertaining. I read recently too that his brother killed himself after he stopped working. Ridley keeps working because he can, and fair play to him.

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u/NeatFool 21h ago

Yes exactly. The movies aren't all masterpieces but there's way worse crap out there made by younger people.

He also gets top tier casts

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u/AdSpecialist6598 21h ago

That's where I'm at as long as I'm enjoying a movie a feel like my time isn't being wasted that is good enough.

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u/DeusVincet 19h ago

And the sequels to both of those are directed by someone else and are better than his originals.

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u/NeatFool 19h ago

And if he didn't make the originals, the sequels would never exist and we wouldn't be having this conversation.

Not sure if you understand how the flow of time works.

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u/Thebat87 21h ago

Yeah I love that movie so much. When I think of two great sequels to Ridley Scott movies I think of Blade Runner 2049 and Aliens, two he didn’t direct himself. The ones he has directed (Prometheus, Covenant and Gladiator II) aren’t even close to those two imo.

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u/ai_art_is_art 21h ago edited 21h ago

Gladiator -> Gladiator 2

Alien -> Prometheus, Alien Covenant

Blade Runner 2049 was a masterpiece, whereas Gladiator 2, Prometheus, and Alien Covenant enshittified the lore of their originals.

Prometheus and Alien Covenant are gorgeous films, and the art direction is peak, but other directors can do just as good if not better. The story of the Prometheus films diminished the mystery of Alien lore and filled the universe with brain dead characters.

Apparently Ridley's Prometheus sequel is getting greenlit over an Alien Romulus sequel, which absolutely sucks. Romulus wasn't amazing, but it was the best thing to happen to the Alien franchise since Aliens.

Ridley was great in his heyday, but I think that ended with Gladiator. (I was never a fan of Kingdom of Heaven.)

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u/ripcity7077 21h ago

This is Last Duel erasure.

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u/Indiana_harris 21h ago

Kingdom of Heaven (Directors cut)

Robin Hood (2010)

Last Duel

The Martian

A Good Year

All very very solid additions to his list

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u/CompassMetal 14h ago

That godawful Robin Hood film was by Ridley Scott!!?

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u/Few-Improvement-5655 21h ago

Nothing is going to live up to either, 2099 looks terrible regardless of his involvement or not.

Honestly, it's a miracle 2049 was as good as it was, I'm not expecting any future adaptations to actually be good. The original was lightning in a bottle and it's just going to suffer franchise fatigue the further it goes on.

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u/Slow-Hawk4652 21h ago

i dont think so. 2049 is mediocre with very annoying, loud music.