Retrofitting Blade Runner: Issues in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" and Philip K. Dick's "Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Carl Erik Rinsch will direct 47 Ronin , an 18th century samurai epic starring Keanu Reaves. It’s the story of a group of leaderless samurai (aka Ronin) who seek to avenge their master after he is forced to commit sepaku (suicide). It’s…
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
At least it's not Tom Cruise again.
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In addition to the forthcoming Robin Hood movie and Alien prequel, we can look forward to Ridley Scott’s big screen adaptation of one of the worlds most beloved board games - Monopoly ! It still sounds crazy saying that. Ridley Scott’s Monopoly . But then,…
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
"I created a comedic, lovable loser who lives in Manhattan and works at a real estate company and he’s not very good at his job but he’s great at playing Monopoly. And the world record for playing is 70 straight days – over 1,600 hours – and he wanted to try to convince his friends to help him break that world record. They think he is crazy. They kid him about this girl...
io9 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Monopoly the movie will be done weirdly, thanks to director Ridley Scott's science fictional plans for the board game adaptation. The good news is that Uncle Pennybags made the cut. The LA Times has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
If you have been wondering just how Ridley Scott and Universal Pictures were going to turn the popular "Monopoly" board game into a feature film then join the club. Corpse Bride and 9 co-writer Pamela Pettler was brought aboard to pen the screenplay and some interesting details surfaced yesterday with regards to the plot, which [...]
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
So how exactly will Ridley Scott turn Monopoly into a board game? It's the world's most popular and frustrating form of communal entertainment (well, using fake money, anyway), but going around a square board and losing all your money doesn't sound like a natural movie idea. Fortunately, we don't have to work that our on own because writer-producer Frank Beddor tells The Los Angeles Times how it's...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Hit in the head with a sock full of quarters?
Make the logo bigger. (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Or Ukrainian village. I’m guessing they don’t usually get many trick or treaters. Check out more real life Hansel and Gretel “ inspirations .”
mosses from an old manse (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Ridley Scott's first & best film THE DUELLISTS is on TCM tonight, containing (besides a lot of very crisply rendered landscape) Harvey Keitel as the martinettiest, shortest-tempered Napoleonic officer in movie history, as well as Stephen Frear's fine first effort, the 1972 neo-noirGumshoe, with Albert Finney...
Don't Lose Your Day Job (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
When word hit that Ridley Scott was on board to direct the long talked about Alien prequel, what ran through your mind? Were you thinking lots of alien action? A Giger-iffic closer look at the xenomorphs? If so, you might want to start reeling back those alien expectations. Empire Magazine recently got the scoop from [...]
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Giannina Facio and Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott is working on a movie to begin filming next year about the downfall of the Gucci family dynasty. However, the Gucci family is freaking out over how scandalous the film could be. Angelina Jolie is in talks to play Patrizia Reggiani, Maurizio Gucci's ex-wife, who's currently serving a 26-year sentence for plotting his 1995 murder. So it's a pretty scandalous...
Screenhead (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Ridley Scott is one BUSY individual. But let’s face facts–the man’s got like thirty hojillion projects in the works right now, so his announcement that he’s considering an Alien prequel needs to be taken with a grain of salt. A grain of salt about, say, the size of a Buick. But he’s clearly been thinking it [...]
SCI FI Wire (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Alien director Ridley Scott has talked more about the proposed prequel movie he'll be directing, and it's not what you expect.
Filmshaft.com (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Everybody loves Aliens, I’m not talking the irritatingly nice variety ...
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