Despite waiting until he was almost 40 years old to make his first film, Ridley Scott quickly became one of the most prolific and respected directors working in Hollywood. His reputation for being a curmudgeon on set notwithstanding, Scott was placed in the upper echelon of his peers, thanks to early classics like “Alien” (1979) and “Blade Runner” (1982). He did, however, suffer unusually long periods of lackluster films, particularly following the rousing success of his revisionist take on the buddy road movie, “Thelma and Louise” (1991). Most directors would have wilted under the crushing