8 Directors Who Hate Superhero Movies

7. Ridley Scott

Ridley Scott Superhero
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Ridley Scott gave us Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise and Gladiator, so when he opines that, “Cinema mainly is pretty bad”, you sit up and take notice. What type of blockbuster will he never turn his hand to? Take a wild guess.

“Superhero movies are not my kind of thing,” he claims. “I can’t believe in the thin, gossamer tightrope of the non-reality of the situation of the superhero.”

The closest he’s ever come to making a comic book movie, he maintains, is his celebrated adaptation of Philip K Dick’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

“Blade Runner really is a comic strip when you think about it: it’s a dark story told in an unreal world. You could almost put Batman or Superman in that world, that atmosphere, except I’d have a f**king good story as opposed to no story.”

We’ll hold him to that when Alien: Covenant opens in May 2017.

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Ian Watson is the author of 'Midnight Movie Madness', a 600+ page guide to "bad" movies from 'Reefer Madness' to 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.'