Ridley Scott’s Biblical Epic Finds a New Streaming Home



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Besides Christopher Nolan, Ridley Scott is perhaps the only other filmmaker working at the highest level of Hollywood who can switch seamlessly between sci-fi thrillers and historical epics. Nolan has expressed his love for some of Scott’s movies, which the older filmmaker has accepted in his own inimitable manner. Scott is returning to sci-fi shortly after a gap that lasted nearly a decade. Over this decade, the filmmaker focused primarily on historical movies such as Gladiator II, Napoleon, and The Last Duel. Nolan has been on a similar trajectory, having made several sci-fi movies before leaning into period epics. The Odyssey, his latest release, is touted as his most ambitious project yet. Over a decade ago, Scott explored the mythological genre with a big-budget epic that was headlined by Nolan’s frequent collaborator Christian Bale.

That film is now heading to Peacock. Audiences who enjoyed The Odyssey in theaters can check it out as a companion piece. Both films are based on legends that have been adapted numerous times over the years, across media. Both legends have also formed the backbone of modern storytelling as we know it. Nolan himself has mined The Odyssey for inspiration in his earlier movies, such as Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, and even Oppenheimer. Scott, on the other hand, doubled down on large-scale epics after Gladiator; he went on to make Kingdom of Heaven and Robin Hood before turning to the Bible for his 2014 release.





















































Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz
Which Lord of the Rings
Character Are You?

One Quiz · Ten Questions · Your Fate Revealed

The road goes ever on. From the green hills of the Shire to the fires of Mount Doom, every soul in Middle-earth carries a destiny. Ten questions stand between you and the truth of who you are. Answer honestly — the One Ring has a way of revealing what we most want to hide.

💍Frodo

🌿Samwise

👑Aragorn

🔥Gandalf

🏹Legolas

⚒️Gimli

👁️Sauron

🪨Gollum

01

You are handed a responsibility that could destroy you. What do you do?
The weight of the world falls on unlikely shoulders.




02

Your closest companion is heading into terrible danger. You:
True loyalty is revealed not in comfort, but in crisis.




03

Enormous power is within your reach. Your instinct is:
Power corrupts — but only those who reach for it.




04

What does “home” mean to you?
Where we long to return reveals who we truly are.




05

When a battle is upon you, your approach is:
War reveals what we are made of — whether we like it or not.




06

Someone comes to you for advice in their darkest hour. You:
Wisdom is not knowing all the answers — it’s knowing which questions to ask.




07

How do you see yourself, honestly?
Self-knowledge is the most dangerous kind.




08

Which of these best describes your relationship with the natural world?
Middle-earth speaks to those who know how to listen.




09

You encounter a wretched, pitiable creature who has done terrible things. You:
How we treat the fallen reveals the height of our character.




10

When the quest is over and the songs are sung, what do you hope they say about you?
In the end, we are all just stories.




The Fellowship Has Spoken
Your Place in Middle-earth

The scores below reveal your true character. Your highest number is your match. Even a tie tells a story — the Fellowship was never made of simple people.

💍
Frodo

🌿
Samwise

👑
Aragorn

🔥
Gandalf

🏹
Legolas

⚒️
Gimli

👁️
Sauron

🪨
Gollum

You carry something heavy — and you carry it alone, even when you don’t have to. You were not born for greatness, and that is precisely why greatness chose you. Your courage is not the roaring, sword-swinging kind; it is quiet, stubborn, and terrifying in its refusal to quit. The Ring weighs on you more than anyone can see, and still you walk toward the fire. That is not weakness. That is the rarest kind of strength there is.

You are, without question, the best of them. Not the most powerful, not the most celebrated — but the most essential. Your loyalty is not a trait; it is a force of nature. You would carry the person you love up the slopes of Mount Doom if it came to that, and we both know you’d do it without being asked. The world needs more people like you, and the world is lucky it has even one.

You were born to lead, and you have spent years running from it. The crown is yours by right, but you know better than anyone that right means nothing without the will and the worthiness to back it up. You are tempered by loss, shaped by long roads, and defined by a code of honour you hold to even when no one is watching. When you finally step forward, the world shifts. Because it was always waiting for you.

You have seen more than you let on, and you say less than you know — which is exactly as it should be. You are a catalyst: you do not fight the battles yourself, you ignite the people who can. Your wisdom comes not from books but from an age of watching what happens when it is ignored. You arrive precisely when you mean to, and your presence alone changes what is possible. A wizard is never late.

Graceful, perceptive, and almost preternaturally calm under pressure — you see things others miss and act before others react. You do not need to make a scene to be remarkable; your presence speaks for itself. You are loyal to those you choose to stand beside, and that choice is not made lightly. You have lived long enough to know that the most beautiful things in this world are also the most fragile, and that is why you fight to protect them.

You are loud, proud, and absolutely formidable — and beneath all of that is one of the most fiercely loyal hearts in Middle-earth. You don’t do anything by half measures. Your friendships are forged like iron, your grudges run as deep as mines, and your courage in battle is the kind that makes legends. You came into this fellowship suspicious of everyone and ended it willing to die for an elf. That is not a small thing. That is everything.

You think in centuries and act in absolutes. Order, dominion, control — not because you are cruel by nature, but because you have decided that the world left to itself always falls apart, and you are the only one with the vision and the will to hold it together. You were not always this. Something was lost, or taken, or betrayed, and the version of you that stands now is the answer to that wound. The tragedy is that you’re not entirely wrong — just entirely too far gone to course-correct.

You are a study in contradiction — pitiable and dangerous, cunning and broken, capable of both cruelty and something that once resembled love. You are defined by loss: of innocence, of self, of the one thing that gave your existence meaning. Two voices war inside you constantly, and the tragedy is that the better one sometimes wins, just not often enough, and never at the right moment. You are a warning, yes — but also a mirror. We are all a little Gollum, given the right ring and enough time.

Here’s When You Can Watch Ridley Scott’s Epic on Peacock

The movie in question is Exodus: Gods and Kings. The movie features Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses II, with Aaron Paul, John Turturro, Sigourney Weaver, Ben Mendelsohn, and Ben Kingsley in supporting roles. Produced on a reported budget of $200 million, Exodus grossed around $268 million worldwide, falling short of its fellow 2014 biblical epic Noah. The Odyssey was able to eclipse Exodus‘ lifetime haul in four days flat. Nolan’s movie has also been infinitely better received than Scott’s epic, holding a 95% score on Rotten Tomatoes compared to the 29% score of Exodus. The aggregator website’s consensus reads, “While sporadically stirring, and suitably epic in its ambitions, Exodus: Gods and Kings can’t quite live up to its classic source material.” You can watch the movie on Peacock starting August 1. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


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Release Date

December 12, 2014

Runtime

150minutes


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