Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal to Re-Team After ‘Gladiator II’ on ‘The Dog Stars’
variety.comKatcy Stephan As “Gladiator II” barrels towards theaters, Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal are already set to re-team on a new project.
Scott will direct “The Dog Stars” for 20th Century, with Mescal in advance negotiations to star. Scott will work with Steve Asbell and the 20th Century Studios team to bring the film, adapted by Mark L Smith from Peter Heller’s apocalyptic thriller, to life.
Smith, Cliff Roberts and Scott’s film and television production vehicle Scott Free are producing.The film follows a civilian pilot lives a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine, in a near future where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society.
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.
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