Ridley Scott’s nearly five-decade-long career of filmmaking has produced some of film history’s most iconic stories and characters ranging from Ripley’s relentless Alien-fighting perseverance to Deckard terminating replicants to Maximus entertaining the arena. His career has vastly spanned genres from historical epics to sci-fi futures, and one of his greatest defining features as an auteur is doing things his own way. We discuss the long career of the 86-year-old director before previewing his latest with Gladiator II.

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