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On the one hand, Ridley Scott had to contend with the inevitable defeat of The Martian at the hands of the recent blockbuster Project Hail Mary. On the other, he proved that he remains in a league of his own, especially as far as the sci-fi genre is concerned, with the continued success of his 1982 classic on streaming. Scott broke out with the acclaimed sci-fi horror film Alien, and followed it up with a sci-fi noir film starring Harrison Ford. The second film recently witnessed a viewership spike along with a host of other movies directed by Scott, from the sci-fi sequel Alien: Covenant to the biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings.
On its 20th day of release, Project Hail Mary overtook the $228 million lifetime domestic box office haul of The Martian — both films are based on bestselling books by Andy Weir, and are scripted by Drew Goddard. The Martian was released in 2015 to instant critical and commercial success. In addition to grossing approximately $630 million worldwide, the movie earned seven Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor. However, Scott’s 1982 movie wasn’t an instant hit. In fact, it underperformed at the box office and rose to prominence (after several different re-edits and cuts) only years after its theatrical run.
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
It is now considered a masterpiece, with a “Certified Fresh” 89% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. We’re talking, of course, about Blade Runner. The Rotten Tomatoes consensus for the movie reads, “Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott’s mysterious, neo-noir Blade Runner has deepened with time. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece.” According to FlixPatrol, Blade Runner was among the most-watched movies on the domestic iTunes chart this week, when the leaderboard was topped by the twisty thriller The Housemaid. A legacy sequel to Scott’s classic, titled Blade Runner 2049 and directed by Denis Villeneuve, was released to critical acclaim and box-office disappointment in 2017. Incidentally, the sequel starred Ryan Gosling in the lead role alongside a returning Ford. Gosling also happens to be the star of Project Hail Mary, which has now overtaken The Martian domestically.
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David Webb Peoples, Hampton Fancher, Philip K. Dick
Michael Deeley, Run Run Shaw
A blade runner must pursue and terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.