In a speech at the 2007 Venice Film Festival at special screening of his seminal noir thriller Blade Runner , Sir Ridley Scott, the legendary director of Alien , announced that he believes that science-fiction as a genre is dead -gone the way of Westerns. Scott believes that although the flashy special effects of block-busters such as The Matrix , Independence Day and The War of the Worlds , may sell at the box office, that none can beat Stanley Kubrick’s haunting 1968 epic 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film is as fresh and perhaps more relevant today as the day it premiered.
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Ridley Scott: "After 2001 -A Space Odyssey, Science Fiction is Dead"
