question: Who is the Enlglish film director and producer that was born in 1937 that is working on turning John Pearson's novel into a film? 
answer: Ridley Scott
context: Title: John Ford filmography
  Passage: John Ford (1894–1973) was an American film director whose career spanned from 1913 to 1971.  During this time he directed more than 140 films.  Born in Maine, Ford enter the filmmaking industry shortly after graduating from high school with the help of his older brother, Francis Ford, who had established himself as a leading man and director for Universal Studios.  After working as an actor, assistant director, stuntman, and prop man – often for his brother – Universal gave Ford the opportunity to direct in 1917.  Initially working in short films, he quickly moved into features, largely with Harry Carey as his star.  In 1920 Ford left Universal and began working for the Fox Film Corporation.  During the next ten years he directed more than 30 films, including the westerns "The Iron Horse" (1924) and "3 Bad Men" (1926), both starring George O'Brien, the war drama "Four Sons" and the Irish romantic drama "Hangman's House" (both 1928 and both starring Victor McLaglen).  In the same year of these last two films, Ford directed his first all-talking film, the short "Napoleon's Barber".  The following year he directed his first all-talking feature, "The Black Watch".
  Title: Ruben Fleischer
  Passage: Ruben Samuel Fleischer (born October 31, 1974) is an American film director, film producer, television producer, music video director, and commercial director who lives in Los Angeles.  He is best known as the director of the critically acclaimed and financially successful "Zombieland", his first feature film.  He followed it by making the films "30 Minutes or Less" and "Gangster Squad", both of which opened to mixed reviews.  He will next direct the 2018 film version of "Venom" which is based on the Marvel Comics character.  Prior to directing feature films, Fleischer was a prolific director of television commercials and music videos, working for such brands as Cisco, Eurostar, ESPN, and Burger King, as well as such artists as M.I.A., Electric Six, DJ Format, and Gold Chains.
  Title: Ridley Scott
  Passage: Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer.  Following his commercial breakthrough with the science-fiction horror film "Alien" (1979), his best known works include the neo-noir dystopian science fiction film "Blade Runner" (1982), historical drama and Best Picture Oscar winner "Gladiator" (2000), and science fiction film "The Martian" (2015).
  Title: Mano Khalil
  Passage: Mano Khalil is a Kurdish-Syrian film director.  He studied history and law at Damascus University and moved to Czechoslovakia in 1987 to study fiction and film direction.  Between 1990 and 1995 he worked as an independent film director for Czechoslovak and later for Slovak Television.  Since 1996, he has lived in Switzerland, working as an independent film director and producer.
  Title: George Pearson (filmmaker)
  Passage: George Pearson (OBE), (19 March 1875 – 6 February 1973) was a pioneering English film director, producer and screenwriter, mainly in the silent film era.  He was born in London.
  Title: All the Money in the World
  Passage: All the Money in the World is an upcoming 2017 American crime drama film directed by Ridley Scott and based on John Pearson's novel "Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty".  It stars Michelle Williams, Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris, Charlie Plummer, Andrew Buchan and Timothy Hutton.  The plot of the film involves the biographical account from the early 1970s of the sustained refusal of J. Paul Getty to cooperate with the extortion demands of a group of kidnappers, from the organized crime group 'Ndrangheta, who had abducted and mutilated his grandson John Paul Getty III.
  Title: Theo Kamecke
  Passage: Theo Kamecke (October 18, 1937 - May 23, 2017) is a sculptor, who previously worked as a film director during the 1960s and 1970s.  Kamecke's best known film is "Moonwalk One" - a NASA commissioned documentary feature film to cover their Apollo 11 mission in the summer of 1969.  Theo's other influential films included "The Incredible Bread Machine Film", and "To Be Alive", which he worked as a film editor on.  Since the 1980s, Theo has worked as a sculptor, working in the medium of early electronic circuits.  His work has been purchased by film director James Cameron.
  Title: Pawan Kumar (director)
  Passage: Pawan Kumar (Born 29 October 1982) is a film Director, Actor, Producer and Screenwriter in the Kannada film industry.  He is well known for the films "Manasaare", "Pancharangi", his directorial debut "Lifeu Ishtene" and the 2013 psychological thriller "Lucia" became one of the biggest turning points of his career.  Being from a theatre background, he wrote scripts for plays on stage before working as an associate director with Yograj Bhat.
  Title: K. V. Anand
  Passage: K.V. Anand, ISC (born 1966) is an Indian cinematographer, film director and former photo journalist, working mainly in the South Indian film industry.  After a short period as a journalist, he became a cinematographer in the early 1990s, working for about fifteen films in the Southern and Bollywood industries.  Anand won the National Film Award for Best Cinematography for his debut film as a cinematographer, "Thenmavin Kombath", In 2005, Anand turned film director with the critically acclaimed "Kana Kandaen" (2005) and rose to fame with his second film, "Ayan" (2009), third film, "Ko" (2011), fourth film "Maattraan" (2012) and fifth film "Anegan" (2015).
  Title: Alexis Granowsky
  Passage: Alexis Granowsky (1890–1937) was a Russian theatre director who later became a film director.  Granowsky was born as Abraham Azarkh to a Jewish family in Moscow.  After studying in St. Petersburg, he went to Munich where he gained valuable theatre experience working under Max Reinhardt.  He served in the Russian army during the First World War before in 1919 he set up his own Jewish-orientated theatre in St. Petersburg, which under a new director became GOSET.  Granowsky's reputation rose quickly over the following years, as he became one of the most celebrated theatre directors in Europe.  In 1925 Granowsky directed his first film, a silent, but concentrated his efforts on his stage work.
citations: All the Money in the World Ridley Scott