The ‘Blade Runner’ Shoot
Ridley recalls shooting Blade Runner (1982): "It felt like a Humphrey Bogart movie. Harrison Ford was doing Raiders. I thought, “If Spielberg and Lucas want him, I’d be insane not to.”
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Commercial Director
Scott, in 1970 shooting a Harvest Pies commercial.
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Shooting ‘Prometheus’
Scott on the set of Prometheus with Theron; she had to be tracked down in Malaysia in order to be given the script.
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A Deadpan Wit
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Rankin “I don’t smile much — I don’t know why,” says Scott, outside the London office of his Scott Free Productions. His brother Tony says Ridley’s most distinct quality is his dry sense of humor.
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Art as ‘Safety Valve’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Rankin “My safety valve was art. My parents thought I was a bit strange because when someone else would have gone dancing, I was always painting,” says Scott (photographed April 20 in front of an array of his film clappers at Scott Free Productions in London).
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Passed Over for ‘Aliens’
Image Credit: Photo Credit: Rankin “I was really pIssed off, frankly.”
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Before the Blitz
From left, elder brother Frank, mother Elizabeth, father Frank, younger brother Tony and Ridley, whose earliest memories were of bombs raining on London during the Blitz.
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Blood Brothers
The sibing directors: Tony and Ridley Scott.