25 Years Later, Ridley Scott’s $92M War Epic Is Still an Undisputed Classic

Ridley Scott is best known for some of the greatest sci‑fi films, but he has long worked across genres. In recent years he made the big-budget legal drama House of Gucci and the war epic Napoleon, the latter drawing criticism from historians and critics for numerous historical inaccuracies.

He will return to sci‑fi later this year with The Dog Stars, a post-apocalyptic thriller starring Jacob Elordi and Josh Brolin. The film was moved from a March premiere to August to give the post-production team more time to finish visual effects. Scott directed the 2001 war film Black Hawk Down, which follows 160 elite U.S.

soldiers dropped into Mogadishu in the early 1990s. The cast includes Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore and Eric Bana; Quentin Tarantino has called it his favorite movie. The film holds 77% with critics and 88% with audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, grossed $172 million at the box office against a $92 million budget, and has become one of the top-10 most popular purchases on Apple TV worldwide.

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