After Gladiator II, Ridley Scott Is Taking Paul Mescal to the Apocalypse

Ridley Scott is astir 90 years aged and the antheral ne'er stops. He’s astir to release Gladiator II, the sequel to one of his astir acclaimed movies—and astatine 1 point, helium was going to travel it up with a movie astir legendary 1970s set the Bee Gees. Instead though, Scott has decided to compression successful another movie beforehand, 1 that takes spot astatine the extremity of the world, and he’s doing it with his newest Gladiator star.

Deadline confirms that Ridley Scott is re-teaming with Paul Mescal to marque an adaptation of the publication The Dog Stars by Peter Heller for 20th Century Fox. The movie is acceptable aft a deadly microorganism has wiped retired astir of humanity wherever 2 improbable survivors—a civilian aviator and a Marine warfare vet—live unneurotic with their dog. One day, they perceive a mysterious vigor awesome that could mean hope, truthful they instrumentality disconnected and alert beyond the borders of their information zone, hoping to lick the mystery.

According to the trade, Scott decided to marque The Dog Stars due to the fact that helium wanted to enactment with Mescal again and Mescal had an opening successful his docket aboriginal adjacent year, aft a abbreviated stint connected Broadway successful A Streetcar Named Desire. Mark L. Smith, who co-wrote The Revenant and the caller deed Twisters, adapted Heller’s book.

That book, by the way, won each sorts of awards and is seemingly excellent, which makes consciousness arsenic it’s Ridley Freaking Scott directing the adaptation. At 86 he’s inactive got the aforesaid passionateness and imaginativeness helium had erstwhile helium was making Blade Runner and Alien astir 50 years ago. He’s simply 1 of the champion directors to ever measurement down a movie camera. In precocious years, Scott not lone made Gladiator II, helium made 1 of his biggest films ever with Napoleon, revisited the Alien franchise with Covenant and Prometheus, and adapted different fantastic sci-fi novel, The Martian. So if anyone tin casually marque a post-apocalytpic play earlier tackling the set down “Staying’ Alive,” portion besides developing caller Alien projects and deity knows what else, it’s Scott.

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