Ridley Scott’s impending apocalypse: ‘People don’t watch the news. This is happening already’
The director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of Canada
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- First seen
- 26 Aug 2026, 05:13 UTC
- Last checked
- 27 Aug 2026, 12:46 UTC
- Version history
- 3 versions
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Irish Times
- Country
- Ireland
- Source published
- 26 Aug 2026, 04:25 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- Donald Clarke
- Section
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The director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of Canada
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Ridley Scott’s impending apocalypse: ‘People don’t watch the news. This is happening already’
The director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of Canada
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Ridley Scott’s impending apocalypse: ‘People don’t watch the news. This is happening already’
The director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of Canada
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Ridley Scott’s impending apocalypse: ‘People don’t watch the news. This is happening already’
The Dog Stars director on bringing his bleak ‘Celtic’ world view to The Dog Stars, the Pauline Kael bad review he had framed, and his fear of Canada
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Evidence layer
Capture provenance
- Capture ID
- #2858
- Observed
- 26 Aug 2026, 18:59 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 904,035 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt