It’s a lovely history under Scott’s name, and what makes it even more sentimental is that Boy and Bicycle stars Tony Scott, his younger brother, who also happens to be an established filmmaker.
had talked to him about his career and had tried to get Tony excited about making another movie. The New Yorker piece mentions that Ridley Scott once said his brother’s death was “inexplicable ...
It’s certainly true that Tony and Ridley Scott did not make a lot of the same sorts of movies. Of all of Tony Scott's great films, the only genre movie he directed was his first feature film ...