Ridley Scott is the king of the director’s cut. A huge swath of his films, from Alien to Blade Runner to Kingdom of Heaven to Black Hawk Down to Legend to The Counselor, are available in multiple versions. if you like a director who loves to tinker with (and extend) his work after the fact, Ridley is your man. So this is not shocking: … Read more
Ridley Scott has a four-and-a-half-hour director’s cut of Napoleon and hopes that Apple will eventually release it. Perhaps more than any other filmmaker, Ridley Scott has thoroughly embraced the use of the director’s cut. Many of his movies have received the director’s cut treatment, including Blade Runner, Legend, and Kingdom of Heaven, and it sounds … Read more
During Apple’s 2023 WWDC event, the company gave a very brief tease of Ridley Scott’s highly anticipated Napoleon. The latest clip came during a highlight reel of Apple’s upcoming slate of content. In the short sequence, we get a brief look of a large ship, before Joaquin Phoenix’s titular Napoleon appears. Nothing more was shown, … Read more
That’s Joaquin Phoenix riding a horse as Napoleon in Ridley Scott’s upcoming film Napoleon. The historical epic will reunite the director and star of Gladiator. The movie was produced by Apple, which will release the movie in theaters this fall ahead of its streaming premiere on Apple TV+. The film brings the 85-year-old Scott full … Read more