Ridley Scott’s turned down superhero movies because of their “non-reality”

As a matter of fact, Scott’s dedication to realism is actually the precise reason why he hasn’t made any superhero movies. According to Digital Spy, he recently revealed that superhero movies are “not [his] kind of thing,” and that studios have asked him “several times” to direct one, but he just “can’t believe the thin, gossamer tightrope of the non-reality of the situation of the superhero.” He admits that Blade Runner is kind of a comic strip and that Superman or Batman would almost work in that world, but he’d have “a fucking good story” instead of “no story.”

Rather than recognizing that he could put his money where his mouth is and just make a good superhero movie himself, though, Scott simply bemoans that “cinema mainly is pretty bad” these days. He hopes to continue making “smart films,” but he’s also concerned that the general dumbification of the movie industry will eventually prevent him from doing that. (Again, this is the guy who made Prometheus.)