‘Shut up and go make another movie’: Ridley Scott doesn’t believe in Quentin Tarantino’s retirement

At the theatrical release of his 2000 cult sequel, Gladiator II, Ridley Scott gave a lengthy interview to US magazine. The Hollywood Reporter. The media asked the 86-year-old director, still very prolific – in four years he made Gucci House, The Last Duel, Napoleon and Gladiator II – about a possible retirement.

A director passionate about his “work”.

Ridley Scott’s answer was quite straightforward: “Are you kidding me? If I thought about directing, I wouldn’t do it. It’s my passion and therefore my pleasure. I think it keeps me active. I’m injured from playing too much tennis. My knees are weak and I’m getting injections. I can’t be that old man who’s filming. It’s lame on the field because when we shoot Gladiator II it’s 44 degrees and I have to be outside, who can’t read on vacation.”

The filmmaker adds:Since the first Gladiator, I think I’ve done 16 movies, which is quite a lot in 20 years. I have always been envious that actors can do two to three films a year. They just need to prepare by learning their lines. I have to write, find financing, supervise the casting, organize the filming, direct, edit… the actor just has to come and do his thing. “

Many projects

Revisiting what might have prompted him to stop directing feature films, Ridley Scott adds: “When I’m dead. Clint Eastwood He is 94 years old and just realized Juror #2I’m 86 years old, so I still have a few films to make.”

Indeed, Ridley Scott has several projects completed: a biopic dedicated to the Bee Gees, the spy thriller Queen & Country with Sylvia Hoeks, the thriller BOMB and Gladiator 3.

Quentin Tarantino’s retirement? Ridley Scott doesn’t believe it!

American media then asked Scott what he thought of Quentin Tarantino’s announcement of his impending retirement. After that, Ridley Scott didn’t mince words and said: “I don’t believe it. I don’t believe this shit. Shut up and go make another movie.”

Recall that in June 2023, the director of Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill announced that he was going to make one last film before retiring. A few months later, he mentioned The Movie Critic, a film about a film critic working for a pornographic magazine in the late 1970s, but on April 17, 2024, Deadline announced that the director was leaving the project. with the clarification that he still has to make a tenth feature film. Will Quentin Tarantino follow Ridley Scott’s advice? To be continued…