Ridley Scott finally returned to the sci-fi genre earlier this year with The Dog Stars, but despite it being his first sci-fi film in almost 10 years, there wasn’t much demand for the movie. Scott enlisted some major stars, including Josh Brolin, Jacob Elordi, and even Margaret Qualley to headline The Dog Stars, but the film didn’t even scrounge together $30 million at the box office before leaving theaters as one of Scott’s lowest-grossing films. Fans of Ridley Scott’s movie won’t have to wait long to see if he will find box office redemption, though, as he’s officially returning to the big screen next year for a remake of Treasure Island starring Hugh Jackman. Hugh Grant and Owen Cooper also star in the film, and Adolescence scribe Jack Thorne penned the script for Scott’s new pirate epic.
While it might be next year before Ridley Scott has a new movie in theaters, he does have a new TV show coming out sooner than you may realize. Scott is one of the leading producers on Blade Runner 2099, which is set to begin streaming on Prime Video next month on November 25. The film is a direct sequel to both Scott’s original Blade Runner movie from the 1980s and the legacy sequel, Blade Runner 2049, but creatives involved with the show have confirmed it’s much more in line, at least tonally, with the original Blade Runner movie. Anticipation for Blade Runner 2099 is so high right now that fans are rushing to check out the Blade Runner 2049 sequel on streaming, which has led it back into the top 10 on Paramount Plus and Prime Video in America several times this month.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival QuizWhich Sci-Fi World Would You Survive?The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star WarsFive universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do?The first instinct is often the truest one.
APull on every thread until I understand the system — then figure out how to break it.
BStop asking questions and start stockpiling — food, fuel, weapons. Questions don’t keep you alive.
CKeep my head down, observe carefully, and trust no one until I know who’s pulling the strings.
DStudy the patterns. Every system has a rhythm — learn it, and you learn how to survive it.
EFind the people fighting back and join them. You can’t fix a broken galaxy alone.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely?What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
AKnowledge. If you understand the system, you don’t need resources — you can generate them.
BFuel. Everything else — movement, power, escape — runs on it.
CTrust. In a world of fakes and informants, a truly reliable ally is rarer than any commodity.
DWater. And after water, information — the two things empires are truly built on.
EShips and credits. The galaxy is big — you survive it by being able to move through it freely.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night?Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
AThat reality itself is a lie — that everything I experience has been constructed to keep me compliant.
BA raid. No warning, no mercy — just the roar of engines and then nothing left.
CBeing identified. Once someone with power decides you’re a problem, you’re already out of time.
DBeing outmanoeuvred — losing a political game I didn’t even know I was playing.
EThe Empire tightening its grip until there’s nowhere left to run.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust?Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
ASubvert it from the inside — learn its rules well enough to weaponise them against it.
BIgnore it and stay out of its reach. The further from any power structure, the better.
CAppear to comply while doing exactly what I need to do. Visibility is the enemy.
DManoeuvre within it carefully. You can’t beat a system you refuse to understand.
EResist openly when I have to. Some things are worth the risk of being seen.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term?Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
AUnderground bunkers and server rooms — cramped, artificial, but with access to everything that matters.
BOpen wasteland — brutal sun, no shelter, constant movement. At least the threat is honest.
CA dense, rain-soaked city where you can disappear into the crowd and nobody asks questions.
DMerciless desert — extreme heat, no water, and something enormous living beneath the sand.
EThe fringe — backwater planets and busy spaceports where the Empire’s attention rarely reaches.
06
Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart?The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
AA tight crew of believers who’ve seen behind the curtain and have nothing left to lose.
BOne or two people I’d trust with my life. Any more than that and someone talks.
CNobody, ideally. Alliances are liabilities. I work alone unless I have no choice.
DA community bound by shared hardship and mutual survival — people who need each other to last.
EA ragtag team with wildly different skills and total commitment when it counts.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all?Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
AI won’t harm the innocent — even the ones who’d report me without hesitation.
BI do what I have to to protect the people I’ve chosen. Everything else is negotiable.
CThe line shifts depending on who’s asking and what’s at stake.
DI draw a long-term line — nothing that compromises my people’s future, even if it’d help now.
ESome lines, once crossed, can’t be uncrossed. I know which ones they are.
08
What would actually make survival worth it?Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
AWaking others up — dismantling the illusion so no one else has to live inside it.
BFinding somewhere — or someone — worth protecting. A reason to keep moving.
CAnswers. Understanding what I am, what any of this means, before time runs out.
DLegacy — shaping the future in a way that outlasts me by generations.
EFreedom — for myself, for others, for every world still living under someone else’s boot.
Your Fate Has Been CalculatedYou’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
- You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
- You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
- You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
- The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
- You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
- You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
- You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
- In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
- You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
- In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
- You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
- In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
- Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
- You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
- Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
- In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
- You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
- You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
- You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
- In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Is Ridley Scott Directing Any Episodes of ‘Blade Runner 2099’?
Ridley Scott is producing all eight episodes
Ridley Scott is producing all eight episodes of Blade Runner 2099, but he is not directing any episodes of the series. Blade Runner 2099 stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and Hunter Schafer (Euphoria) in leading roles, and the series is set in a world where the power dynamic between humans and replicants has shifted. Tom Burke, who recently appeared opposite Anya Taylor-Joy in the 2024 sci-fi film Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, has also been tapped for a key role in Blade Runner 2099.
Check out Blade Runner 2049 on Paramount Plus and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Ridley Scott’s future projects, like Blade Runner 2099.
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DramaSci-Fi
ActionThriller
Release Date
October 6, 2017
Runtime
164 minutes
Director
Denis Villeneuve
Writers
Michael Green, Hampton Fancher
Producers
Andrew A. Kosove, Broderick Johnson, Bud Yorkin, Cynthia Sikes, Carl Rogers, Dana Belcastro, Steven P. Wegner
Harrison Ford
Rick Deckard
Ryan Gosling
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Prequel(s)
Blade Runner
Franchise(s)
Blade Runner
