The 2001 war drama, directed by Scott, topped a list of the century\u2019s best films selected by Tarantino during an appearance on Bret Easton Ellis\u2019s podcast last year.<\/p>\n
The Pulp Fiction filmmaker selected the film ahead of others including Pixar animation Toy Story 3, Tokyo-set romance Lost in Translation, and historical drama There Will Be Blood.<\/p>\n
Scott was asked about Tarantino\u2019s choice during a new interview with The Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI wonder what he was on, because whatever it is, I want some,\u201d he remarked. Asked if he considered it the best film of the century, Scott replied: \u201cNo!\u201d<\/p>\n He added that he had not spoken to Tarantino about the interview, but his brother, the late filmmaker Tony Scott, \u201cknew him well\u201d. <\/p>\n \u201cTony adored Quentin and, I think, Quentin adored Tony,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Elsewhere in the interview, Scott railed against the uniformity of storytelling in modern cinema, claiming that crime dramas and superhero films had oversatured the market.<\/p>\n \u201cLook, everything now is about a murdered girl in the woods, or an FBI agent who is better than anyone else \u2013 or a superhero,\u201d he said. \u201cF*** me! There have to be other stories to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n Scott, 88, has directed more than 30 films across his career, including modern classics such as Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, and Gladiator.<\/p>\n His latest film, The Dog Stars, is out in cinemas next week, and sees Jacob Elordi (Euphoria; Wuthering Heights) play a civilian pilot drawn into action after humanity has been ravaged by a deadly flu pandemic.<\/p>\n The film also stars Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, Allison Janney, Guy Pierce, and Benedict Wong.<\/p>\n Scott\u2019s previous effort was the 2024 sequel Gladiator II, a follow-up to the Russell Crowe-starring sword-and-sandals epic. <\/p>\n In a four-star review for The Independent<\/a>, critic Clarisse Loughrey wrote: \u201cGladiator II is equal in scale and spectacle <\/a>[to the original] and weighted with metaphor, but it\u2019s also shot through with the kind of wry, absurdist slant that\u2019s come to dominate Scott\u2019s work of the last decade and a half, from Napoleon<\/a> to Alien: Covenant. <\/p>\n \u201cAt times, Gladiator II is pure camp. To insist that it shouldn\u2019t be is to hold on too tightly to the dour expectations of the 21st-century blockbuster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[184836,71525,184846,63355,6494,309,96,113176,44184,55473,6496,59,1826,184837,220112,2207,6487,184838,184839,32936,246906,15219,56,54,55,83596],"class_list":["post-747356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-arrival","tag-arts-culture-and-entertainment","tag-attending","tag-central-london","tag-color-image","tag-england","tag-entertainment","tag-film-director","tag-film-industry","tag-film-premiere","tag-full-length","tag-gb","tag-jacob-elordi","tag-london-england","tag-odeon-leicester-square","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-premiere-event","tag-red-carpet-event","tag-ridley-scott","tag-the-dog-stars-film","tag-two-people","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-vertical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Ridley](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2291322114...jpeg\")
Ridley Scott and Jacob Elordi at the premiere of ‘The Dog Stars’ (Getty)<\/p>\n![\"Quentin](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2247562882.jpeg\")
Quentin Tarantino pictured last November (Getty Images for Epic Games)<\/p>\n