Ridley Scott Has 2049 Sour Grapes?

Ridley Scott has given an interview with Vulture this week.  And he gets around to talking about the excellent Blade Runner 2049.  Scott seems to have a sour word or two about the movie, or at least its run time.

“[Whispers] I have to be careful what I say. I have to be careful what I say. It was f–king way too long. F–k me! And most of that script’s mine… I sit with writers for an inordinate amount of time and I will not take credit, because it means I’ve got to sit there with a tape recorder while we talk. I can’t do that to a good writer. But I have to, because to prove I’m part of the actual process, I have to then have an endless amount [of proof], and I can’t be bothered.”

Scott also took credit for some of the film’s key elements such as the bones by the tree belong to a Replicant mother and K’s digital girlfriend:

“The mother has to inexplicably die four months after she breastfeeds. The bones are found in the box at the foot of the tree — that’s all me. And the digital girlfriend is me… I shouldn’t talk. I’m being a bitch.”

It kind of puts a different spin on Neil Blomkamp’s canceled Aliens sequel, does it not?