If Ridley Scott retired 46 years ago, he would still be one of the most influential filmmakers ever. Now The Dog Stars is his 30th movie. And he was already a veteran director before he came to features. Is it true that he made a thousand TV advertisements, or was it two thousand? Ads paid well, and the fast pace suited him. (He has never liked relaxing.) Half a century later, some Brits still remember his bread commercial. And then, on the big screen, he invented a new world. Smoke, steam, neon shadowlight on cybermorphic grime. Big Tech vast as nation-states. Humanity going obsolescent. Dead machines who’ve seen things that we people…
