Director Name: Ridley Scott

Director:
- The Duellists (1977)
- Alien (1979)
- Blade Runner (1982)
- Legend (1985)
- Someone to Watch Over Me (1987)
- Black Rain (1989)
- Thelma & Louise (1991)
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)
- White Squall (1996)
- G.I. Jane (1997)
- Gladiator (2000)
- Black Hawk Down (2001)
- Hannibal (2001)
- Matchstick Men (2003)
- Cinema16: British Short Films (2003)
- All the Invisible Children (2005)
- Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
- A Good Year (2006)
- American Gangster (2007)
- Body of Lies (2008)
- The Kind One (2010)
- Robin Hood (2010)
- Untitled Alien Prequel (2011)

Future Projects:
- Red Riding
- Untitled Reagan/Gorbachev Project
- The Killing Sea
- Untitled Tony Scott Project
- Brave New World
- In Vitro
- The Forever War
- Town House
- Untitled Monopoly Project
- Untitled Gucci Biopic
- The Passage
- Stones
- Child 44
- Factor X
- Purefold

Awards:
- 1991: Oscar for Best Director – Thelma & Louise
- 2000: Oscar for Best Director – Gladiator
- 2000: BAFTA Award for Best Direction – Gladiator
- 2001: Oscar for Best Director – Black Hawk Down
- 2008: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries – The Andromeda Strain

Short Bio:
Born in South Shields, Tyne and Wear, Scott grew up in an Army family, meaning that for most of his early life his father — an officer in the Royal Engineers — was absent. Ridley’s older brother, Frank, joined the Merchant Navy when he was still young and the pair had little contact. During this time the family moved around, living in (amongst other areas) Cumbria, Wales and Germany. After the Second World War the Scott family moved back to their native north-east England, eventually settling in Teesside (whose industrial landscape would later inspire similar scenes in Blade Runner). He enjoyed watching films, and his favourites include Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane and Seven Samurai. Scott studied in Teesside from 1954 to 1958, at Grangefield Grammar School, Stockton and later in West Hartlepool College of Art, graduating with a Diploma in Design. He progressed to an M.A. in graphic design at the Royal College of Art from 1960 to 1962.

He was assigned to design the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks, which would have entailed realising the famous alien creatures. However, shortly before he was due to start work a schedule conflict meant that he was replaced on the serial by Raymond Cusick. At the BBC, Scott was placed into a director training programme and, before he left the corporation, had directed episodes of Z-Cars, its spin-off, Softly, Softly, and adventure series Adam Adamant Lives!.
In 1968 Ridley Scott and his brother Tony Scott founded Ridley Scott Associates (RSA), a film and commercial production company. Five members of the Scott family are directors, all working for RSA. Brother Tony has been a successful film director for more than two decades; sons, Jake and Luke are both acclaimed commercials directors as is his daughter, Jordan Scott. Jake and Jordan both work from Los Angeles and Luke is based in London.

Read more on Ridley Scott brought to us by OBS staff-member Chris here.

from moviesblog.mtv.com:

Oh vampires… you pop culture darlings. You drink the blood of humans, turn into bats, abhor garlic and melt in the sunlight. Or sparkle, depending on what kind of vampire. And yet, despite all of these potential pitfalls, you’ve captured our hearts. Like it or not, vampires are here to stay. At least for the next little bit; we’ll see what happens once the “Twilight” series caps off with “Breaking Dawn.”

While the Stephenie Meyer series continues to enthrall teens and pre-teens everywhere, other filmmakers are looking towards more mature content. There’s Matt Reeves‘ “Let Me In” of course, an Americanized remake of Tomas Alfredson’s Swedish blood-sucker flick, “Let the Right One In.” And “Daywalkers.” And “Priest.”

Now there’s another one, according to Variety: the eternally busy director/producer Ridley Scott has turned to his old pal and “Gladiator” collaborator John Logan to write an adaptation of Jonathan Ainsley’s vampire novel, “The Passage.” And the band plays on…

It’s worth noting that Scott and Logan haven’t partied together since their collaboration on the Oscar-winning “Gladiator.” Vampires are as good a reason as any to bring them back together, and “The Passage” has a good pedigree. Ainsley, pseudonym of award-winning author Justin Cronin, sold his then-unfinished novel to Fox 2000 two years ago.

More here

OMG 2020! Well I guess that will give us time to get to know ‘The Passage’ better. I’m a fan of vampire movies and will definitely give it a try, when it get’s here.

What do you think of ‘The Passage’? Are you getting tired of vampire movies? Do you want to see something else?