Ridley Scott brings together a strong cast for The Dog Stars: Jacob Elardi, Guy Pearce, Josh Brolin, Margaret Qualley …
An adventure in Colorado after the Apocalypse, adapted from a novel by the scriptwriter of The Revenant and Twisters.
The Bee Gees, it’s over: while dust falls on Gladiator II released last November, We knew since Ridley Scott would not turn his biopic project for the trio of Australian singers To devote oneself to The Dog Starsa science fiction film. And Deadline has just announced the cast of the main roles of the film, and it’s heavy. In addition to Jacob Elardi in the main role, the site announces Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce in the credits of The Dog Stars whose filming should start in April in Italy, in the Dolomites.
And it tells what, The Dog Stars ? It is the adaptation by the screenwriter Mark L. Smith (The returning,, Twisters) of the novel of the same name of Peter Heller, published in 2012 and unpublished in French. In the future, the earth has been depopulated by a pandemic. In the depths of Colorado, Hig (Elordi), an airplane pilot, has the sole companions a dog and a ranger (Brolin, who was in American gangster in 2007). He will fly away in his old cuckoo to follow the trace of a mysterious radio signal, crash and be collected by a young woman (Qualley) whose father (Pearce) directs a community of survivors …
The Dog Stars which will be distributed by 20th Century Studios (therefore Disney), and has no release date yet. Which allows us to remember that Ridley Scott had to turn the adaptation of I am a legend with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the late 90s: the project Capoted, but as Ridley embarked on Gladiator Then, we will not complain too much -a living dog is better than a dead lion, reminds us of the ecclesiastes.
By the way, Guy Pearce (who has already played at Ridley in Prometheus) is denied in megalo businessman in The brutalist Faced with Adrien Brody, currently in theaters.
