Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal are already out promoting Gladiator II, but they’re joining up again for a new film. According to Deadline, Scott and Mescal are going to 20th Century for a film called The Dog Stars. Mark L. Smith is adapting the Peter Heller novel of the same name. Smith and Cliff Roberts will produce the film along with Scott Free.
The film looks to shoot next spring after Mescal is done on Broadway with A Streetcar Named Desire. Scott has been quite busy in recent years and it was apparently between this film and Paramount’s Bee Gees movie for him. That film should start filming in later 2025 with Scott on board as director. Here’s a synopsis of The Dog Stars.
The Dog Stars is set in a near future where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society. A civilian pilot lives a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine. The two men couldn’t be more mismatched but depend on each other to fend off roaming invaders. When a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside the pilot that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail.
Smith has been on a run of his own with scripts like Twisters, The Boys In The Boat, and American Primeval at Netflix.
We’ll keep you updated on this story as it develops.
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Source: Deadline
