Although he’s probably going to be kept occupied with the Alien franchise for quite some time (perhaps even the rest of his career, if his recent comments about six more instalments are anything to go by), but filmmaker Ridley Scott has revealed that he remains keen to revisit 2000’s Gladiator, and has an idea as […]
Ten Stock Female Characters Hollywood Needs to Stop Writing
Kirsty Capes with ten stock female characters Hollywood needs to stop writing… From Mary Sues to Disposable Women, Hollywood seems to have a problem with writing interesting and original female characters. It’s not a problem, I would argue, that seems to happen with male characters, and I for one find it interesting, if not a […]
Ridley Scott to receive VES Lifetime Achievement Award
While J.J. Abrams (Star Trek) will be lauded with the VES Visionary Award, British filmmaker-producer Ridley Scott will be receiving the VES Lifetime Achievement Award for a career that includes Alien (1979), Blade Runner (1982), Gladiator (2000), Kingdom of Heaven (2005), Prometheus (2012) and the forthcoming Biblical epic Exodus: Gods & Kings (2014). “Ridley Scott […]
