After auditioning Timothée Chalamet, Austin Butler and Richard Madden, the director ofAlien chose the rising star of Irish cinema Paul Mescal. Ridley Scott has never made a secret of his desire to revisit and pursue the universe of his hit film Gladiator, which in 2000 had restored peplum acclaim. This throwback to ancient Rome, its […]
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Brad Pitt, the curse of a sex symbol on Arte.tv
brad pitt (here, during the 79e Venice Film Festival, September 8) seems to have sought all his life to make forget his image of handsome kid. Venezia2020/IPA/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect CRITICAL – Back to the journey of a star who managed to shed his glamorous image to impose his personality as a comedian and […]
Blade Runner 2099: the continuation of the saga is available in series on Amazon Prime Video
Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford in Denis Villeneuve’s suite, blade runner 2049. Everett Collection/Bridgeman Images After six months of development, the platform has ordered a miniseries, the plot of which will take place 50 years after Denis Villeneuve’s part. Maestro Ridley Scott and Michael Green will oversee this sequel as executive producers. The Replicants will […]
Death of Joe Turkel, essential actor of The Shining and Blade Runner
The American comedian died on June 27 in Santa Monica in the United States at the age of 94. A prolific supporting role, he notably played alongside Jack Nicholson and Harrison Ford under the direction of Stanley Kubrick and Ridley Scott. Paths of Glory, The Gunboat of the Yang-Tse, shining, blade runner… the great American […]
With the dinosaurs of Jurassic World, Malta displays its ambition of an open-air studio
REPORTAGE – The island appears for the first time as such in a chase between reptiles and humans. The authorities hope that this planetary pub will transform the nation into a hub for filming. What do the heroic fantasy series have in common? Game Of Thronesthe zombie movie World War Z , the peplum Gladiatorthe […]
Tahar Rahim will play Barras in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
The French actor, César for best actor in 2010, will camp the powerful member of the Executive Board, who supported the career of the young Bonaparte, played by Joaquin Phénix. Napoleonic legend says that General Bonaparte met Joséphine de Beauharnais in the salons of Paul Barras, then the strong man of the Directory. The American […]
Ridley Scott hopes to find in Vanessa Kirby his Joséphine de Beauharnais
Produced by Apple, Kitbag chronicle the rise of the emperor and already enraged historians because of the choice of Joaquin Phoenix and a partner younger than him to embody his first empress. Ridley Scott should not stay long without his Joséphine de Beauharnais. The filmmaker hoped to start filming at the end of the month. […]
Our House of Gucci review: the heroes of the fabric
CRITICAL – Ridley Scott masterfully takes hold of the news item that shook the world of Italian fashion in the 1990s. Luxury, calm and voluptuousness. You should not trust the decor. We are among the happy people of the world. Gucci: the name slams like a banner. In the 1970s, silver smelled like leather. He […]
Adam Driver: “Ridley Scott would have made a good king!”
MAINTENANCE – The director bet on the 38-year-old actor, a former member of the Marines, to The Last Duel and House of Gucci. Adam Driver is not just the son of an Arkansas pastor who after 9/11 enlisted in the navies in Iraq, only to go into the theater when he returned home. He is […]
Who are Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris, the knights of Ridley Scott’s Last Duel?
The American director was inspired by the history of France and one of the last legal duels authorized in 1386, between the chamberlain and the favorite of Count Pierre II d’Alençon. Ridley Scott likes to bring the characters of the story to life in his own way. In Gladiator, he brings down into the arena […]