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Ridley Scott Confirms He's Shooting Two Movies This Year

Nobody is making big movies with the speed – or the confidence – of the Gladiator and Alien mastermind, now 87. He doesn’t care who notices

Scott got Cs in history and geography too, though he would later preside over elaborate stories set in the Biblical, Roman, medieval, and Renaissance periods, as well as the age of exploration and the Napoleonic era, and would film across the world. So he’ll happily talk about 1991’s Thelma & Louise, which brought him his first Oscar nomination, and is often credited with launching the career of a near-unknown Brad Pitt, in his scene-stealing turn as a seductive armed robber. The actor commissioned Nick Cave to write a script in which his character reappeared from the afterlife, resulting in a notoriously fanciful narrative in which Crowe’s gladiator travelled forwards into modern history.

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