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Ridley Scott hosts Science Channel’s show featuring the real world reflection of the ideas and tropes of Science Fiction and related entertainment.

Connecting the Line Between Point A and… What's Beyond Z?: Dr. Michio Kaku embraces the future in PROPHETS OF SCIENCE FICTION.
When Ridley Scott executive produces a cable series focusing on how the visionaries of science fiction helped pave the way for our actual future, you might expect episodes speculating on a world where chest-bursters and [...]

Road Rage Bites: Anton Yelchin (left) courts the wrath of Colin Farrell in FRIGHT NIGHT.
There goes the neighborhood. Charismatically feral vampire Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves into a struggling Las Vegas suburb, and it’s up to teen lovers Charley (Anton Yelchin) and Amy (Imogen Poots) to keep property values from seriously bottoming out by curtailing [...]

Charlize Theron negotiating to co-star in Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, Michael Fassbener hints still a ALIEN connection.

X-MEN FIRST CLASS Star in talks with FOX.

ALIENS (1986)
Seems that it was a good call, us taking the news portion of The Cinefantastique Podcast and mating it with what had to date been called the Cinefantastique Post-Mortem Podcast. Word that Ridley Scott is turning his scheduled ALIEN prequel into a kinda non-prequel puts Steve Biodrowski, Lawrence French, and Dan Persons in a [...]

No PARADISE, not a 2-parter. No casting, no greenlight?

PARADISE for ALIEN lovers, the prequel not pushed to 2013 -SPOILERS

On his blog, science fiction author Joe Haldeman revealed that Ridley Scott’s film version of his classic novel The Forever War has a screen writer, and that several drafts have been completed.
Who’s is the writer? From Haldeman’s clue, it’s got to be David Webb Peoples, who wrote the screenplay for Scott’s BLADE RUNNER, adapted from [...]

Turns out the whole hullabaloo was started by a polar bear in the jungle.

The TRON:LEGACY director to leave computers behind for aliens.

Covering the L.A. Times Hero Complex screenings and Q&A, Ain’t It Cool reported Ridley Scott’s revelations about the ALIEN prequels.
Yes, there are two movies planned, with both parts already scripted.
Scott told the audience his inspiration:
“…In the first Alien, when John Hurt climbed up and over the top of the rise… there was a massive [...]

Director Ridley Scott
MTV have been speaking to Ridley Scott (ALIEN, BLADE RUNNER) during his ROBIN HOOD press tour and have managed to squeeze some exciting information out of him in regards to ALIEN 5. We’ve been aware that Scott has signed on to direct the prequel for a while but the director has remained [...]