It wasn't, though. Potential? Sure, loads. Squandered. Same with Covenant.
I don't want to shit on him too much. I just finished the book of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and let me tell you, he really put a hell of a lot of work and imagination in to get Blade Runner from that source material. The two are barely connected, but his vision is definitely superior to the book. Personally, I think 2049 is better than the original. And Scott claims to have written most of the script for 2049, and when you hear him talk about his overall vision for Blade Runner it's really cool. I'm probably just salty because he missed so hard on those Alien movies, and they had so much potential. And that Robin Hood movie, he took an excellent premise and completely hosed it. I'm not confident that modern day Ridley Scott could have pulled off 2049.
And his "Upcoming Alien Prequel" is going to blow, and that Gladiator 2 shit sounds like a bit from Bojack Horseman. Some people need an editor, or at least someone around who won't just yesman all their bullshit ideas.
