Blade Runner, V For Vendetta, The Goonies, Enter The Dragon getting 4K Steelbooks
by Simon Brew | May 12, 2025 | News
Blade Runner, Enter The Dragon, The Goonies and V For Vendetta's new 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Steelbooks have gone up for sale....
Director: Ridley Scott
Alien | The birth and curious death of HR Giger’s Space Jockey
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 26, 2025 | Feature, News
To mark Alien Day, we head back to the late 1970s to see how HR Giger designed the Space Jockey - and its strange fate after the film's premiere......
Moonraker, Alien, and 1979’s attitude to plot spoilers
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 04, 2025 | Feature, News
The attitude to spoilers appeared to be rather different in 1979, if magazine coverage of Moonraker, Alien and more are anything to go by…...
Alien | A Prometheus-like prequel concept was first floated in 1979
by Ryan Lambie | Apr 01, 2025 | Feature, News
A magazine article from 1979 reveals that an Alien prequel, "telling the tale of the space jockey" was first discussed over 45 years ago....
The Bee Gees movie | Ridley Scott looks to shoot it in the autumn
by Simon Brew | Mar 26, 2025 | News
The on-off Bee Gees movie You Should Be Dancing looks like it's on again, with Ridley Scott lining it up after The Dog Stars....
Alan Dean Foster and a legendary novelist’s life in film
by Ryan Lambie | Mar 13, 2025 | Feature, News
Author Alan Dean Foster talks to us about his connections to some of the most important sci-fi films of all time, including Star Wars, Star Trek,...
The Dog Stars | Ridley Scott signs up Margaret Qualley and more
by Dan Cooper | Feb 13, 2025 | News
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with The Dog Stars, adding Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce to the cast....
Blade Runner | Ridley Scott says film's financiers didn't know who Harrison Ford was
by Dan Cooper | Jan 16, 2025 | News
Ridley Scott has been chatting about his experience with 1982's Blade Runner, and having to explain who Harrison Ford was....
Jacob Elordi replaces Paul Mescal in Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars
by Dan Cooper | Jan 08, 2025 | News
Ridley Scott's next film loses Paul Mescal to The Beatles, and brings Jacob Elordi in to headline The Dog Stars instead....
Gladiator II arriving on digital next week, 4K UltraHD Blu-ray set for March
by Maria Lattila | Jan 07, 2025 | News
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II can be watched at home from next week and an array of physical media releases, including a 4K UltraHD Blu-ray, will be a...
2024 | Film Stories’ 31 best movies of the year
by Ryan Lambie | Dec 18, 2024 | Feature, News
With an emphasis on the low-budget, the genre-based, daring and imaginative, here’s our pick of the 31 best movies of 2024....
Gladiator II cinematographer on Ridley Scott's style: "It’s really lazy"
by Dan Cooper | Nov 28, 2024 | News
Someone isn't happy with Ridley Scott's late-period evolution as a filmmaker - but crikey, it's his Gladiator II cinematographer....
Gladiator II and the lone hero of democracy
by A J Black | Nov 26, 2024 | Feature
It may be set in Ancient Rome, but like its predecessor, Gladiator II says a lot about the current state of democracy, AJ writes....
Ridley Scott | Studio changes have delayed the Bee Gees movie
by Simon Brew | Nov 20, 2024 | News
Ridley Scott has explain the late in the day delay to Bee Gees biopic You Should Be Dancing, which now isn't his next film....
Gladiator II | Is this the first post-January 6th blockbuster?
by James Harvey | Nov 15, 2024 | Feature, News
In Gladiator II, all is not well in the world's largest military superpower. We couldn't possibly comment......
In conversation with Lucy Fisher & Douglas Wick: Gladiator II, Ridley Scott, Stuart Little and more
by Simon Brew | Nov 15, 2024 | Podcasts
Producers Lucy Fisher and Douglas Wick join the podcast to tell their story, with lashings of Gladiator II and a dose of Stuart Little....
Prometheus | "We were asleep at the wheel," Ridley Scott says of his prequel
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 14, 2024 | News
Over a decade on, Ridley Scott has some harsh criticism of his 2012 Alien prequel, Prometheus, and some of his collaborators....
Gladiator II | Paul Mescal interview - massive sets, Ridley Scott and working with Denzel Washington
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 14, 2024 | Feature, News
We chat to the star of Gladiator II, Paul Mescal, about working with Denzel Washington, and adapting to Ridley Scott’s tendency to shoot things in a c...
Ridley Scott interview | Gladiator II, Alien 3, tennis, art and baboons
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 13, 2024 | Feature, News
Director Ridley Scott talks to us about Gladiator II, his favourite tennis documentary, baboons and an awful lot more....
Gladiator II review | Ridley Scott serves up another sumptuous tale of blood and circuses
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 11, 2024 | News, Reviews
Paul Mescal wields a sword and Denzel Washington steals the show in Ridley Scott's full-blooded sequel. Here's our Gladiator II review:...
Film Stories magazine issue 52 | The biggest UK movie magazine - now with Ridley Scott!
by Simon Brew | Nov 01, 2024 | News
On sale now: Film Stories issue 52, with Ridley Scott, low budget filmmaking, the state of UK horror, and a whole lot more!...
Ridley Scott says he’s directing a mystery sci-fi film (exclusive)
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 01, 2024 | News
An exclusive from director Ridley Scott: among his planned upcoming films, including his Bee Gees biopic and Gladiator III, there’s a mystery sci-fi m...
Ridley Scott details his upcoming Bee Gees biopic and Gladiator III (exclusive)
by Ryan Lambie | Nov 01, 2024 | Feature, News
Director Ridley Scott gives us an exclusive on three of his planned upcoming films, including his Bee Gees biopic and Gladiator III....
Gladiator 3 | Script is already underway, Ridley Scott says
by Dan Cooper | Oct 09, 2024 | News
"I’ve got the beginning of a very good footprint,” says director Ridley Scott as he reveals that a percentage of Gladiator 3's script has already bee...
Gladiator 2 | Second trailer emerges, features Paul Mescal and fighting
by James Harvey | Sep 23, 2024 | News
It's a bad time to be related to a muscly Paul Mescal - the second Gladiator 2 trailer sees the Normal People star out for revenge....
Podcast | American Gangster (2007) and Piranha II: The Spawning (1982)
by Simon Brew | Sep 16, 2024 | Podcasts
Ridley Scott and James Cameron step into the spotlight for different reasons, in the new Film Stories podcast episode......
Alien: Romulus | Its ending’s dark implications for the franchise
by Ryan Lambie | Sep 10, 2024 | Feature, News
The ending of Alien: Romulus, and some comments by its director, suggest that the franchise’s lore has made a subtle yet dark change…...
Piles and pillow talk | The biggest changes in the Napoleon director’s cut
by James Harvey | Aug 30, 2024 | Feature
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon director’s cut is streaming on Apple TV+ now – here’re our main takeaways....
Napoleon | Director's cut gets surprise Apple TV+ release
by James Harvey | Aug 29, 2024 | News
Like the opposite of a winter invasion of Russia, Ridley Scott's Napoleon director's cut has appeared very suddenly on Apple TV+ - and is available to...
Alien: Romulus and 45 years of fascinating androids
by Ryan Lambie | Aug 23, 2024 | Feature
With spoilers, we dig into 45 years of Alien movies to explore why its androids - sorry, artificial persons - are such fascinating characters....
Bee Gees biopic now called You Should Be Dancing, Ridley Scott starts filming next year
by Simon Brew | Aug 20, 2024 | News
Ridley Scott will direct You Should Be Dancing, the biopic of the Bee Gees. But there's Gladiator II to sort out first....
Alien | How it fused New Hollywood and the 1980s blockbuster era
by A J Black | Aug 16, 2024 | Feature
With Alien: Romulus in cinemas, a look at how Ridley Scott's original Alien emerged from the New Hollywood of the 1970s and anticipated the...
