The auteur recalled a studio executive encouraging him to make features about "normal people" (and not replicants or aliens) instead.

"There's only one film worked out of all of that lot," Scott said of his early feature output during a recent interview with Alien: Romulus writer-director Fede Alvarez on the Director's Guild of America's The Director's Cut podcast.

Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal will bring viewers back to the world of Ridley Scott's Gladiator (2009) when the sequel film in which they star lands in theaters Nov. 22. Mescal will portray Lucius, the son of Connie Nielsen's Lucilla,

Ridley Scott is known to fascinate audiences with his unique storylines and spelling magic from behind the camera. Every Scott-directed movie has been fictional, or partly based on real-life characters.