Director Ridley Scott is no stranger to expansive, grand-scale storytelling. From Gladiator, to Blade Runner , to Alien, he takes his characters through life-altering (and sometimes ending) challenges and his audiences into imaginative worlds; even when his tales are based in history.

In our current cinematic culture, superhero movies are the order of the day. They are - for the most part - where the stories of universe altering events, Gods, and monsters are being told. Yet Scott hasn't taken on the genre - yet.We had the chance to sit down with the director recently to talk about his upcoming spectacle film Exodus: Gods and Kings, starring Christian Bale as Moses. Stay tuned for more on that!During our conversation, we asked if he might be interested in exploring the superhero or comic book genre."I've had a lot of opportunities and I tend not to do that," Scott explained. "They're the hardest single thing to write. Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue."After thinking on it a moment, the director added, "Blade Runner was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic stip. Comic metaphorically."Of course he doesn't mean that Blade Runner was literally a comic book strip. It was adapted from the 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. The director seemed to indicate that his classic science fiction film was structred like a comic book strip, with minimalistic dialogue and lots left to the imagination...Take a look at what Scott had to stay above and stay tuned for more on Exodus: Gods and Kings.

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