Ridley Scott revealed his four favorite films (and one of them is his own)

During the premiere of *Alien: Romulus*, Ridley Scott was asked by Letterboxd about his four favorite films of all time. Among them, he included one of his own works.

Scott listed:

– *2001: A Space Odyssey* (“The computer knows the mission is more important than the people – we used this in *Alien*”);
– *Star Wars* – the director had planned to film *Tristan and Isolde* when Lucas’ movie hit theaters. After watching the premiere, Scott wondered how he could top *Star Wars* and instead decided to make *Alien*;
– *Blade Runner* – Scott emphasized that it is a very smart and important film;
– *Quest for Fire* – the director recommends watching this production, which starred, among others, Ron Perlman.

Four Favorites with Alien director Ridley Scott and Alien: Romulus director @fedalvar 🎤@AlienAnthology #AlienRomulus pic.twitter.com/4Vthm4VUS0

— Letterboxd (@letterboxd) August 15, 2024

Let’s recall that Scott had also mentioned his own films in the past when he was asked about his favorite sci-fi productions.

The top, I think, sci-fi films in my estimation would be 2001, for sure. I’d probably put that as number one. Really, the star of the film was Hal. The ship is actually driven by a computer. That’s a first. He was even humorous. He de-fused his brain, where he ended up singing, Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do, didn’t he? I think that’s great. And then I think George Lucas’s Star Wars, the ones he did, I would put that as number two. Then I’d do Alien and Blade Runner. (laughs) I’m not going to be modest about that. I think we got it really right in Blade Runner which in a way is a problem because Blade Runner has been a very strong influence  on lots of other films which is nice, it’s amusing, but it’s boring. You gotta move on, you gotta move forward, right? And it’s hard to move forward because I think I landed first on real dystopia, and then everything else is a variation on dystopia.

He added:

But there are one or two films started to get made I thought were quite good when I was in my teens. The one I thought was really good was more about the Cold War with Gregory Peck, and it was called On the Beach with Ava Gardner and it’s the end of the atomic war and the only area left, ironically, is Australia. That’s a good film to get, very good beautiful black-and-white movie. It’s when they’re really original which really counts. A jump forward quantum leap forward.