Are you not entertained? Ridley Scott positive is. He’s seeking to reunite along with his “Gladiator II” lead Paul Mescal for what shall be his subsequent movie.
Scott is ready to direct “The Canine Stars” at twentieth Century Studios, and Mescal is in superior talks to star within the movie, a person with data of the venture informed IndieWire.
“The Canine Stars” is predicated on a 2012 novel of the identical identify by Peter Heller, which is a post-apocalyptic story a couple of man residing alone in an airplane hangar in Colorado along with his canine and one other companion after a pandemic has ravaged the earth’s inhabitants, just for them to enterprise out as soon as they hear a wierd transmission come by way of on the radio of his previous Cessna.
Mark L. Smith, who wrote “The Revenant,” “Twisters,” and “The Boys within the Boat,” is adapting the e-book for the display screen.
It’s anticipated that “The Canine Stars” shall be Scott’s subsequent movie, and the hope is they’ll movie someday subsequent fall. Taking pictures must start after Mescal completes his run on Broadway as Stanley Kowalski in a manufacturing of “A Streetcar Named Want.”
Scott can also be lined as much as direct a biopic on the Bee Gees, although that movie might wait till fall 2025. Scott, at 86 years previous, appears to by no means decelerate.
Smith and Cliff Roberts are producing “The Canine Stars,” as is Scott Free, the director’s manufacturing banner.
“Gladiator II,” which opens November 22, figures to be one of many greater field workplace attracts of the autumn because the long-awaited follow-up to Scott’s Finest Image winner “Gladiator” from 2000.
Mescal is represented by CAA. Smith is represented by Syndicate Leisure, CAA, and legal professional Mark Temple.
Deadline first reported the information.