Ridley Scott is supposed to direct a biopic on the music icons the Bee Gees, however he revealed in an interview that he drove a tough cut price with the studio. So whereas it was beforehand reported the movie would start taking pictures early this 12 months, the director now says disco followers must wait to placed on their dancing footwear.
Scott stated in an interview with GQ on Tuesday that Paramount, which launched his most up-to-date movie “Gladiator II,” later “modified the goalposts” on his deal for the Bee Gees movie (working title “You Ought to Be Dancing”). In flip, Scott as an alternative will start manufacturing on his movie “The Canine Stars” for twentieth Century Footage first. “The Canine Stars” will begin filming in April, and Scott hinted that the Bee Gees movie may start for Paramount by September.
“The deal — the studio modified the goalposts,” Scott stated of the Paramount mission. “I stated, ‘You’ll be able to’t try this.’ They insisted. I stated, ‘Effectively, I’m going to warn you, I’ll stroll, as a result of I’ll go on to the subsequent film.’ They didn’t imagine me, and I did.”
He added, “I used to be being requested to go too far, and I stated, ‘No. Subsequent!’ They didn’t like my deal. So I stated, I’ll transfer on. I’m costly, however I’m fucking good.”
Followers of Scott, 87, know that the director works at a blistering tempo, typically taking pictures two movies in a 12 months. A supply near the director informed IndieWire that Scott, whereas on the press tour for “Napoleon,” was changing into “antsy” about getting happening Bee Gees, and amid contract talks as an alternative shifted his consideration to the film that was able to go. There’s no dangerous blood between Paramount and Scott — in truth “Gladiator II” is one in every of his most profitable movies on the field workplace ever — however “Canine Stars” will shoot in March, and the Bee Gees movie will now shoot within the fall.
A supply near Paramount and Scott Free informed IndieWire merely that the Bee Gees mission will transfer ahead within the fall following “Canine Stars.”
Scott teased that the movie will heart on the “competitors” amongst founding brothers of the Bee Gees Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb; their youthful brother Andy died in 1988. Barry, the final surviving brother, can be govt producing the biopic.
“I appreciated the working-class facet of the Bee Gees,” Scott stated. “It’s all about competitors with brothers…. After which they lose Andy — Andy OD’d at 30. … It’s extra in regards to the present than the luck, proper? It’s a improbable story.”
“The Canine Stars,” which was introduced in 2024 at twentieth Century Studios together with his “Gladiator II” actor Paul Mescal within the lead function. Mescal needed to exit the movie after he was solid as Paul McCartney in Sam Mendes’ four-part Beatles biopic; Jacob Elordi is rumored to have changed Mescal in “The Canine Stars.”
“The Canine Stars” facilities on a pilot named Hig (Elordi) who befriends an ex-Marine gunman whereas battling a band of scavengers known as Reapers. The story is ready in a post-apocalyptic world the place an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society. The movie relies on Peter Heller’s 2012 novel, and can be tailored by Mark L. Smith (“Twisters,” “The Revenant,” “The Boys within the Boat”) and Christopher Wilkinson (“Ali”). Smith and Cliff Roberts are producing “The Canine Stars,” together with Scott’s Scott Free manufacturing banner.