2025 was something of a quiet year in the director’s chair for Ridley Scott, as he only directed one episode of the Apple TV crime thriller show, Dope Thief, which stars Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura. Scott will not only return to the big screen with a new movie later this summer, but The Dog Stars will also mark his return to the sci-fi genre — he last directed a sci-fi movie with Alien: Covenant in 2017. While plot specifics about The Dog Stars are still being kept under wraps before its August 28 release date, Scott has assembled a talented cast of Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin, and Margaret Qualley to star in the film. Scott’s last feature film came at the end of 2024 when he directed the polarizing legacy sequel, Gladiator II, which did not include Russell Crowe in any capacity.
While Scott did not direct any episodes of the show, he did serve as a producer on one of the biggest sci-fi series of 2025 with Alien: Earth. Fans will always associate Ridley Scott with anything Alien-related after he directed the 1979 horror classic, Alien, that started the franchise in the first place. It took a few months for FX to come to a decision, but the network finally renewed Alien: Earth for Season 2 last year in November, and it was also confirmed last month that cameras are officially rolling. It’s still unclear when Alien: Earth Season 2 will be released, but before the show makes its return to Hulu in America and Disney Plus globally, it has returned to streaming charts as one of the most-watched titles in the world. Fans can’t stop binging Scott’s hit sci-fi series.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five 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
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🏜️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.
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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.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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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.
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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.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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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.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
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.
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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.
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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
Mad Max
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.
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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 to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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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
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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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.
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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.
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What Is ‘Alien: Earth’ About?
Alien: Earth is the franchise’s first installment to take place on Earth and not primarily in a spaceship or on another planet. The series follows a group of terminally ill kids whose consciousnesses were placed into new, hybrid bodies. When a mysterious space vessel crash-lands near a research facility on Earth, a team of soldiers explores the crash site and make a discovery that will forever change the human race. Alien: Earth was written and created for TV by Noah Hawley (Fargo), and it stars Sydney Chandler and Timothy Olyphant.
Check out the first season of Alien: Earth on Hulu, and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Season 2.
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