Aside from being a former owner of the studios, Ridley Scott has returned to Shepperton many times over the years, having shot Alien, Legend, Thelma and Louise and Gladiator here. "From the moment I entered Shepperton, I knew the place was special," he says. "Anywhere that had had within its walls Carol Reed directing Orson Welles in The Third Man, was going to mean a great deal to me."