what if Ridley had directed?

have you seen ridleys recent movies? not so good.

in the trivia it mentions Ridley felt it was half hour too long so i guess his BR2049 wouldve been about 2hrs 20 which wouldve meant more box office easily in the 300s... plus i guess the prospect of BR2 'Directed by Ridley Scott' wouldve been more of a draw for audiences

It would've sucked as much as the 1st movie did.

In the latest issue of Empire (Napoleon cover) Scott expresses regret about missing out on directing Blade Runner 2, saying 'i should have directed it' and it should never have come to the point where it clashed with another film (Alien Covenant) , he also says he's involved with the forthcoming series Blade Runner 2099

He also mentions he producing the new Alien film and series but they are nothing to do with Prometheus/Covenant and are 'entirely new'

In the September issue of Empire, Scott intimated that he eventually had to bow out of directing Blade Runner 2049" due to a scheduling conflict with "Alien: Covenant" (which was due to be in production around the same time). "I shouldn't have had to make that decision," Scott said about the unfortunate time constraint. "But I had to. I should have done 'Blade Runner 2.'" His comment seems to point the finger at Warner Bros., implying that both pictures were locked into a specific release window which took precedence over Scott returning to direct the sequel. The films were ultimately released some five months apart, with "Alien: Covenant" arriving in May 2017 followed by "Blade Runner 2049" in October of that same year.

"Alien: Covenant" tried to marry the slasher-movie-in-space aspects of "Alien" with a more Gothic sci-fi narrative involving Michael Fassbender's David, but it didn't quite coalesce for me, personally. It still would have been fascinating to see how Scott's approach would have differed from Villeneuve's on "Blade Runner 2049." The symmetry of having Scott return to the director's chair may have even enticed more moviegoers to come out and see the "Blade Runner" sequel, which didn't exactly light up the box office upon its initial release.

Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/1356838/ridley-scott-forced-choose-between-blade-runner-2-alien-covenant/

More from Ridley on not directing BR2049

Gladiator II has special meaning for Scott, who’s still hard-charging at the age of 86 and turning out at least one epic-scale film every year or two. One thing he tends not to do is revisit his work for a sequel. “I was slow out the starting gate,” he says. “I mean, I should have done the sequels to Alien and to Blade Runner. You change over the years. At that time, I didn’t want to go through it again. So Jim Cameron came in—and then David Fincher—on Alien.” Decades after its initial release, Scott intended to direct the follow-up to Blade Runner, but then the opportunity to revisit the Alien universe arose with 2012’s Prometheus and he ceded the director’s chair to Denis Villeneuve. “I was regretful, although he did a good job,” Scott says.

Scott was determined to keep the second chapter of Gladiator for himself. That was a power he didn’t wield over the producers of his earlier films. “I’m the author of two franchises. Most directors in Hollywood—certainly, let’s say, at my level—don’t let that stuff go. But I did Alien as my second movie, so I didn’t have much choice. And Blade Runner was my third movie. So, I had no choice because I had very tough partners. It was kind of ‘Welcome to Hollywood.’” He says the option to make those sequels back in the ’80s simply didn’t exist: “I was never told or asked. You can imagine I wasn’t happy.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/paul-mescal-pedro-pascal-gladiator-ii-first-look