Ridley Scott is without doubt one of the most prodigious directors working in Hollywood proper now. Each film studio appears content material to lavish him with huge budgets irrespective of how tenuous the pitch. However the filmmaker behind Blade Runner and different classics has grown unimpressed with what everybody else round him is producing. “The quantity of movies that are made today, literally globally–millions. Not thousands, millions,” he stated throughout an interview this weekend. “And most of it is shit.”
The selection feedback got here throughout a retrospective on his profession on the BFI Southbank in London, Deadline reports. Scott, whose 2024 blockbuster Gladiator II at one level featured a largely green-screened sea battle inside a colosseum with huge sharks, lamented that too many dangerous movies are “saved” with digital results added in post-production as a substitute of counting on strong scripts.
Scott was requested if he has any film consolation meals. Why sure, sure he does: his personal films.
I watched Alien along with his commentary final evening and each different scene he stated one thing alongside the traces of “damn that’s good” or “it hasn’t aged at all” and I simply nodded in settlement each time. https://t.co/iYnYyBpZaj
— Barto (@bartonovopolis) October 6, 2025
“Well, actually, right now, I’m finding mediocrity–we’re drowning in mediocrity,” he stated. “And so what I do–it’s a horrible thing–but I’ve started watching my own movies, and actually they’re pretty good! And also, they don’t age.”
He continued, “I watched Black Hawk [Down] the other night and I thought, ‘How in the hell did I manage to do that?’ But I think occasionally a good one will happen, [and] it’s like a relief that there’s somebody out there who’s doing a good movie.”
It’s unclear if he went on to say what these “good ones” are. It will be exhausting to high 2023’s Napoleon, in any case. Scott’s subsequent film is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller referred to as The Canine Stars. It’s out March 2026.
