Ridley Scott Hates Sci Fi, Mobile Phones; Reveals Twenty-Eighth Cut Of 'Blade Runner'

Published: September 2, 2007, 9:09 pm

Tags: an editing suite that just won t quit, blade runner, movies, ridley scott, venice film festival

Master director Sir Ridley Scott (seen here casually relaxing IN UR PASTORAL IDYL) has taken the opportunity to use the Venice Film Festival as a sounding board to test out his new role as cinema's grumpy old man.Scott let his thoughts be known on everything from science fiction genre flicks (dead as the western, apparently; as The Guardian's Paul Howlett says, Scott must've missed Sunshine) to how mobile phones - not pirating or the Scary Movie franchises - are "killing cinema". But our favourite piece of Ridley news is that he has announced another cut of his epic science fiction classic, Blade Runner. There have been five different versions of the film released so far, but Scott insists The Final Cut (sounds a bit like KISS' "Farewell" tour or John Farnham's "The Last Time") - to be released on DVD later this year - is how he originally intended the film to be, blaming the assorted incarnations of his Philip K. Dick adaptation on the studios' muscling in on his artistic

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