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Nickname:	Ridley Scott / Sir Ridley Scott / R-Scott / Rid
Known for:	Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Kingdom of Heaven
Birthday:	30 November 1937, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Height:	5' 7½" (1.71 m)

Ridley Scott is heading back to the future - he is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio to transform cult novel Brave New World for the big screen.


Ridley Scott is heading back to the future - he is teaming up with Leonardo DiCaprio to transform cult novel "Brave New World" for the big screen.


HARRY POTTER will move into ROBIN HOOD’s Surrey, England castle once filming on RUSSELL CROWE’s new medieval epic is complete.Director Ridley Scott has built a makeshift fort and ancient village sites in the Surrey countryside for his new Hood film, and while the wooden huts and homes will be burned down as part of a
RUSSELL CROWE’s new ROBIN HOOD movie has suffered two further safety scares with an actor and studio aide both injured in separate incidents.Last month (Jun09) the $176 million (£110 million) Ridley Scott epic was brought to a halt after an unnamed actor was hurt during the filming of a battle scene in Wales.British tabloid the
A Hollywood agent representing both actor RUSSELL CROWE and director RIDLEY SCOTT has denied the pair has fallen out over their new movie NOTTINGHAM.The duo has teamed up for the upcoming film, the story of mythical English outlaw Robin Hood, which is their fourth movie project together.The picture, which will begin filming in the U.K.
Blade Runner has been named the best sci-fi movie of all time in a new online poll. The futuristic film, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer, tops a list compiled by editors at Moviefone.com - beating all the Star Wars, Alien, and Terminator movies hands down.


Oscar winner RUSSELL CROWE is set to play a werewolf in a new movie to be directed by his mentor RIDLEY SCOTT.Scott has landed a script written by horror scribe Ian Jeffers, and is planning to take it to the big screen, starring regular collaborator Crowe, reports Bloody-disgusting.com.The pair has worked together on a number
Director RIDLEY SCOTT doesn’t always like playing boss and often encourages actors to challenge him on movie sets.The British filmmaker - who has worked with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio - admits some cast members need constant encouragement to share their ideas with him.He says, "What I’ve found is you can’t let anything go by
Moviemaker RIDLEY SCOTT is refusing to become the latest celebrity vintner, despite the fact he now owns a vineyard on his French estate.The British director owns a great grape plot of land in Provence, close to where he shot A Good Year with pal Russell Crowe, but he’d never give up filmmaking to produce wine,
GLADIATOR director RIDLEY SCOTT almost got his big break as a filmmaker from the BEE GEES.The Brit was working on a medieval romp, which was to star the three Gibb brothers, but financial issues led to the project getting scrapped.Scott tells Details magazine, "My contact in their management company told me, ‘The boys are in
Production on RUSSELL CROWE’s upcoming NOTTINGHAM film has been postponed because of looming threats of more industry strikes.The Ridley Scott film, which is slated to show actor Crowe playing a "sympathetic" Sheriff of Nottingham in a new take of the famous Robin Hood tale, has been put on hiatus because of several factors, including the
Reuters - Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio will re-team for a dark thriller titled "The Low Dwellers."
Director Ridley Scott is making a new movie about late U.S. president Ronald Reagan's dealings with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.


American Gangster star RZA was taught to be a cop while filming the crime movie - by the same officers who chased him as a kid. The Wu-Tang Clan rapper turned the tables on his youth as a tearaway on the streets of New York to play a NYPD officer in the Ridley Scott-directed film.


Yes, Rick Deckard is a replicant. Blade Runner director Ridley Scott recently and finally ended the speculation over his android-hunting cop. "If you don't get it, you're a moron," he says in a special features interview in "Blade Runner: Ultimate Collector's Edition" DVD set.

Well, yes, Scott did say that once before as well - in 2000 - but Harrison Ford refuted it and took issue with Scott. ""We had agreed that he definitely was NOT a replicant," Ford said.
Rap mogul JAY-Z connected with DENZEL WASHINGTON’s real-life heroin dealer character in hit new film AMERICAN GANGSTER because drug lords were the only successful people in his neighbourhood when he was growing up.The rapper has recorded a new album inspired by the Ridley Scott film, in which Washington plays gangland boss Frank Lucas.And he admits
American Gangster director Ridley Scott may have two heavy hitters cast in a film that's based on a heart pounding true story, but it also succeeds in closely following, in some cases adding to, an already winning formula that was most recently seen in Martin Scorsesee's The Departed.


So perhaps ''American Gangster,'' Ridley Scott's much-anticipated mobster epic, doesn't have a single original idea in its head, with its unshakable shades of ''Scarface'' and ''Serpico'' and ''Superfly.'' And maybe it's a half-hour too long - this time of year, what film with awards ambitions isn't?


Director Ridley Scott spins this yarn concerning a Harlem drug kingpin (Denzel Washington) who smuggles heroin into the country by hiding it in the bodies of U.S. soldiers killed during battle in Vietnam. There was a time when no one noticed reserved driver Frank Lucas (Washington), but when the criminal kingpin he was charged with transporting through the city streets suddenly dies, Lucas seizes the opportunity to build his own criminal empire. Continue Summary

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Oscar-winner Russell Crowe can't wait to star in Ridley Scott's forthcoming Robin Hood epic, as he's been a fan of the tales since childhood. And the Gladiator star - who will play the Sheriff of Nottingham in the movie - claims the legendary filmmaker is going to great lengths to make sure his big-budget adaptation is historically accurate.

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