2026 is lining up to be yet another big year for Ridley Scott, who will return to the world of sci-fi with his next big summer blockbuster, The Dog Stars. The film stars Josh Brolin, Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, and Benedict Wong, and it’s set in a dystopian future where humanity has been wiped out by a deadly virus, leaving very few survivors. The Dog Stars will be Ridley Scott’s first movie since 2024, when he returned to the Colosseum with the long-awaited Gladiator sequel, Gladiator II. Even before that, Scott directed the polarizing historical epic, Napoleon, which starred Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. His last true sci-fi movie came all the way back in 2017 on Alien: Covenant, which was released in the same year that he directed All The Money in the World (starring Mark Wahlberg).
Scott directed Alien: Covenant soon after he directed the 2015 sci-fi smash hit, The Martian (starring Matt Damon). The Martian is based on the novel of the same name by Andy Weir, who also penned the sci-fi book that inspired Ryan Gosling’s 2026 space movie, Project Hail Mary. One year before he directed The Martian, though, Ridley Scott worked with Christian Bale and Joel Edgerton on Exodus: Gods and Kings, the historical epic that cost $140 million to produce. Unfortunately for 20th Century Studios, Exodus: Gods and Kings grossed only $268 million at the box office, leaving it short of its break-even point and branding it a flop. Now, all these years later, the film will have a chance to redeem itself on the free streaming platform, Tubi, where it’s now available to watch in America.
Collider Exclusive · Middle-earth Quiz Which Lord of the Rings Race Do You Belong To? Hobbit · Elf · Dwarf · Man · Orc
Middle-earth is home to many peoples — the courageous, the ancient, the stubborn, the ambitious, and the wretched. Ten questions will determine which race truly claims your soul. The answer may surprise you. Or it may confirm what you already suspected.
🌿Hobbit
🌟Elf
⚒️Dwarf
⚔️Man
💀Orc
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What does your ideal day look like? How we rest reveals as much as how we fight.
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How do you feel about the passing of time? Our relationship with mortality shapes everything we value.
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Danger is approaching. Your first instinct is to: Fight, flight, or something in between — it’s more revealing than you’d think.
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You stumble upon a great treasure. What do you feel? What we desire — and what we do about it — is the true test.
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How important is community and belonging to you? No race of Middle-earth is truly alone — but some prefer it that way.
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How ambitious are you, honestly? Ambition is neither virtue nor vice — it depends entirely on what you want.
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Where do you feel most at home in the natural world? Middle-earth is vast — and every race has its place within it.
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What kind of strength do you most respect? Every race defines strength differently — and they’re all at least a little right.
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What do you want to leave behind when you’re gone? Legacy is the story we tell ourselves about why any of this matters.
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Be honest — what do you actually want most out of life? The truest question always comes last.
Middle-earth Has Spoken You Belong To…
The race that claimed the most of your answers is your true kin. If two tied, both are shown — you walk between worlds.
◆ A TIE — YOU WALK BETWEEN TWO RACES ◆
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Your Race
The Hobbits
You are, at your core, a creature of comfort, community, and quiet joy — and there is nothing small about that. Hobbits are proof that heroism does not require ambition, that the bravest heart can beat inside the most unassuming chest. You value good food, warm hearths, close friends, and a world that stays largely untroubled by dark lords and quests. When adventure does find you — and it will — you rise to it not because you sought it, but because the people you love needed you to. That is not ordinary. That is the rarest kind of courage in all of Middle-earth.
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Your Race
The Elves
Ancient, graceful, and carrying a weight of memory most mortals cannot fathom, you are one of the Elves. You see the world in its fullness — its beauty, its impermanence, the unbearable ache of watching everything you love eventually fade. You pursue perfection not from pride, but because excellence is how you honour the time you have been given. Others may see you as remote or melancholy. They are not wrong, exactly. But they mistake depth for distance. You feel everything — which is precisely why you have learned to carry it so quietly.
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Your Race
The Dwarves
Stubborn, proud, fiercely loyal, and possessed of a work ethic that would exhaust most other races before breakfast — you are Dwarf-kind through and through. You do not ask for approval and you do not offer it cheaply. Your loyalty, once given, is given for life. Your grudges last longer. You love deeply and defend ferociously, and the things you build — with your hands, with your sweat, with generations of accumulated craft — are made to last. Not for glory. Because anything worth doing is worth doing properly, and you have never once done anything by half measures.
⚔️
Your Race
The Race of Men
Mortal, ambitious, flawed, and magnificent — you belong to the most complicated race in Middle-earth, and that complexity is your greatest strength. Men are capable of cowardice and extraordinary bravery, of cruelty and breathtaking sacrifice, sometimes within the same breath. You feel the urgency of your finite years, and it drives you. You want to matter. You want to leave something behind. You fall, and you rise, and the rising is what defines you. Tolkien called mortality the Gift of Men — not a curse, but a fire that burns bright precisely because it does not burn forever. That fire is you.
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Your Race
The Orcs
Brutal, survivalist, and contemptuous of anything that can’t defend itself — you answered with the instincts of an Orc, and there is a certain savage honesty in that. You do not dress up your desires in polite language or pretend you want things you don’t. You want power, survival, and to never be at the bottom of any hierarchy ever again. Orcs are not evil by nature — they were made from something that was once good, and broken into this shape by forces they did not choose. What remains is fierce, territorial, and deeply aware that the world is not kind. You’ve made your peace with that. The question is what you do with it.
What Is ‘Exodus: Gods and Kings’ About?
The official synopsis for Exodus: Gods and Kings reads as follows:
“The defiant leader Moses rises up against Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II, setting six hundred thousand slaves on a monumental journey of escape from Egypt and its terrifying cycle of deadly plagues.”
The cast of Exodus: Gods and Kings consists of Christian Bale as Moses, Joel Edgerton as Ramses, Ben Kingsley as Nun, John Turturro as Seti, Aaron Paul as Joshua, Ben Mendelsohn as Viceroy Hegep, Sigourney Weaver as Tuya, and Indira Varma as the High Priestess. Ridley Scott directed the film with a script from Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Jeffrey Caine, and Steven Zaillian.
Check out Exodus: Gods and Kings for free on Tubi and stay tuned to Collider for more streaming updates and coverage of Scott’s future projects.
