# Is it time to pull the plug on Ridley Scott? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-ridley-scott/707885 "2014-12-22T04:56:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-ridley-scott/707885/21 "2014-12-23T14:49:54Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > What’s the status on his production of Huxley’s Brave New World with Leonardo DiCaprio? Looks like he obtained the rights in 2008 and then hasn’t done anything with it since. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-ridley-scott/707885/22 "2014-12-23T15:05:04Z")
> [@Quartz](#): > > Since when was America the whole world? Yeah, America hasn’t been the whole world since, like, 1990 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-ridley-scott/707885/23 "2014-12-24T00:00:40Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Looking at **MovieMogul** ’s coding after having quoted the original, it looks like the link is correctly formatted, but when I hover over it the link shows some extra gobbledygook “%3Cbr%20/%3E” at the end. When clicking on it, that gobbledygook stays attached and brings up the error message. Cutting off the “%3Cbr%20/%3E” will refresh the page to the proper blog post. Still, looking at **MovieMogul** ’s coding, the extra “%3Cbr%20/%3E” doesn’t seem to be there. > > Here, I’ll make an attempt at posting [the correct link](http://filmatelist.blogspot.com/2011/07/great-scott.html). > Great blog post, **MovieMogul**! Something I had never given any thought to! Thanks for figuring that out, **bienville**. Excellent blog post and a really good insight into Ridley Scott’s films, **MovieMogul**. I’d pick a nit with BHD in that whenever he had an opportunity to show us wide open spaces, he did: there are numerous awesome shots of “Mogadishu” from helicopter’s vantage points and all of them are in-freaking-credible. But he does seem to favor closed-in situations (they do lend themselves well to tension, after all). ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-ridley-scott/707885/24 "2014-12-24T01:01:11Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > Looking at **MovieMogul** ’s coding after having quoted the original, it looks like the link is correctly formatted, but when I hover over it the link shows some extra gobbledygook “%3Cbr%20/%3E” at the end. When clicking on it, that gobbledygook stays attached and brings up the error message. Cutting off the “%3Cbr%20/%3E” will refresh the page to the proper blog post. Still, looking at **MovieMogul** ’s coding, the extra “%3Cbr%20/%3E” doesn’t seem to be there. > > Here, I’ll make an attempt at posting [the correct link](http://filmatelist.blogspot.com/2011/07/great-scott.html). > Great blog post, **MovieMogul**! Something I had never given any thought to! Thank you! And sorry for any confusion (I didn’t actually test the link myself). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-time-to-pull-the-plug-on-ridley-scott/707885.md?page=1)