Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley, and Man Pearce are in remaining talks to hitch Jacob Elordi in Ridley Scott‘s upcoming post-apocalyptic movie The Canine Stars, Deadline stories. An adaptation of the 2012 Peter Heller novel of the identical identify, and written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Twisters), The Canine Stars is slated to be Scott’s follow-up to his massively profitable Gladiator II, which launched final yr and has grossed over $461 million worldwide.
The plot of The Canine Stars follows Hig (Elordi), a pilot dwelling in Colorado following a worldwide pandemic that worn out a lot of the Earth’s human inhabitants. The official synopsis of the novel reads:
Hig’s spouse is gone, his associates are lifeless, and he lives within the hangar of a small deserted airport along with his canine, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley.
However when a random transmission beams by means of the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him that a greater life exists outdoors their tightly managed perimeter. Risking every part, he flies previous his level of no return and follows its static-broken path, solely to seek out one thing that’s each higher and worse than something he might ever hope for.
Brolin will play Bangley, with Qualley portraying Cima, an intern physician, and Pearce as Cima’s protecting father, Pops. That is the second time Scott has labored with each Brolin and Pearce — the actors appeared in Scott’s American Gangster and Prometheus, respectively. Manufacturing is ready to start in April of this yr in Italy, with the Dolomite area of the nation standing in for the Nice Plains and the Rockies. No launch date has been introduced presently.
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The Solid and Crew Are Experiencing Profession Highs Proper Now
Each member of the Canine Stars solid and crew are having fun with profession highs proper now. Author Smith created the gritty, critically acclaimed Netflix historic drama American Primeval, a miniseries that reportedly blew Scott away. His Twisters, moreover, has a Rotten Tomatoes vital rating of 75% and an viewers rating of 90%, displaying he has the chops to provide crowd-pleasing field workplace fare.
Qualley has turn out to be a rising star within the final yr, with the largest spotlight being taking part in Sue reverse Demi Moore’s Elisabeth within the Oscar-nominated physique horror satire The Substance (although Qualley herself was snubbed for a finest supporting actress nod). She additionally appeared within the 2024 movies Sorts of Kindness and Drive Away Dolls.
Brolin most lately appeared in Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Half Two, and he was simply as shocked as most followers when the director did not obtain an Academy Award nomination for his work on the wildly standard and critically-acclaimed movie. Whereas Brolin threatened to give up appearing if this occurred (he hasn’t, as of but), the actor nonetheless has a number of movies coming quickly, particularly the third Knives Out movie Wake Up Lifeless Man.
One actor not snubbed by the Academy this yr is Pearce, who obtained his first Oscar nomination in one of the best supporting actor class for his work in Brady Corbet’s historic drama The Brutalist. It is a lot deserved recognition for a severely good efficiency, and lengthy overdue for an actor of Pearce’s caliber.