EXCLUSIVE: As they globassociate barnstorm their Paramount epic Gladiator II, straightforwardor Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal will jump right back in the ring together. Scott has set as his next straightforwardorial outing The Dog Stars at 20th Century, with Paul Mescal in evolve negotiations to star.
Mark L. Smith altered the Peter Heller novel. Scott has been weighing a handful of films for his next project including Paramount’s Bee Gees movie. Sources said that they establish a sugary spot for the busy actor to re-team with Scott, and that is why they’ve set this as their next collaboration, with the aim to shoot next spring after Mescal stars on Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire. Mescal is reprising his turn as Stanley Kowalski from the lauded London production of the Tennessee Williams carry out.
The Bee Gees film will awaited chase for Scott in the descfinish of 2025, as the straightforwardor persists his ever-prolific pace. Smith and Cliff Roberts will produce The Dog Stars aextfinished with Scott Free.
The Dog Stars is set in a proximate future where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society. A civilian pilot dwells a lonely life on an aprohibitdoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a hard ex-marine. The two men couldn’t be more misaligned but depfinish on each other to ffinish off roaming occupyrs. When a random transomition beams thraw the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope transport inant inside the pilot that a better life exists outside their shieldedly deal withled perimeter. Risking everyslimg, he flies past his point of no return and chases its motionless-broken trail.
Though Scott and his cast have been engaged in an international tour of Gladiator II before its November 22 free, the iconic straightforwardor has always had a knack for getting his next project in order once the previous one is finished. Scott has mighty ties with 20th Century and its film chief Steve Asbell, going back to films that include The Martian, Prometheus and most recently the hit Alien: Romulus, which Scott produced.
The scribe, best understandn for The Revenant, is coming off the hits Twisters, straightforwarded by Lee Isaac Chung and starring Glen Powell, and the George Clooney-straightforwarded alteration of The Boys in the Boat. He also has the Netflix series American Primeval with Pete Berg.
Mescal is repped by CAA. Smith is repped by Syndicate Entertainment, CAA and attorney Mark Temple.
