Ridley Scott will be fulfilled next November 30 87 years and we don’t know whether to congratulate him for the good handful of memorable titles that he has given us in his filmography or for the incombustible energy and vitality with which he continues to face new major projects. For example, just around the corner we have Gladiator II which premieres in Spain, among other countries, November 15.
The reunion that awaits us in the arena of the Roman coliseum will this time feature Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington and Peter Pascal like great stars of the cast, and despite the titanic effort of production and Scott’s work to live up to the film from almost two and a half decades ago with Russell Crowethe British filmmaker, unavailable to discouragement even with the recent commercial failure of the mammoth Napoleonnot for and he has half a dozen more projects in mind to do, between films and series, plus a seventh that he has already done.
Gladiator III. Something very big, at the box office, would have to happen so that his stories in Ancient Rome would not continue. “I have already written eight pages of the script. I am clear about the beginning and it draws a very interesting thread”he assured Total Film in relation to a third installment of his colossal peplum.
One more of… Alien. He was not going to settle for Alien: Romulus with Fede Alvarez achieving a worthy sequel to the saga. Scott has one unfinished business, and that would be to complete the trilogy he started with Prometheus and continued with Alien: Covenantmore focused on the synthetic David played by Michael Fassbender than in xenomorphs. His intention has been advanced in The Hollywood Reporter.
Wraiths of the Broken Land. He has directed films of all colors and genres, but one is missing. “I’m a fan of westerns and I haven’t directed any yet”he also explains to The Hollywood Reporter. And for him, the scriptwriters Drew Goddard (of Mars directed precisely by Scott or The cabin in the woods) and S. Craig Zahler (director of Bone Tomahawk), they could have one tailored to you in which a father tries to rescue his daughters from a brothel with the help of his two other children and some outlaws.
You Should Be Dancing. At the end of the 70s, the brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice managed to get half of humanity (or more) to dance to the sound of disco music and its ballads with Saturday night feverand Scott is willing to revive the famous band with the biopic who, originally, was scheduled to direct Kenneth Branagh.
Queen & Country. It would be the adaptation of the action and espionage comic series created by Greg Rucka and which stars Tara Chace, British Secret Intelligence Service agent. A project in which negotiations for him to direct (then for 20th Century Fox) began six years ago and it seems that he is finally tied as director.
Sinking Spring. It’s not enough with movies, he also has time for series. He has already directed the pilot episode of this Apple TV+ crime series about a group of criminals posing as members of the DEA. When one of their misdeeds breaks into a mansion, they discover the largest stash of narcotics on the east coast of the United States. Consists of 8 episodes and the first, the one who directed, It has cost no less than 50 million dollars.
Roads to Freedom. Still in pre-production, the miniseries adapts the books by Sir Antony Beevor that offer several stories about World War II with the intention of offering a different and unique perspective on the conflict. The production has united him with Steven Knightyou, the creator of Peaky Blindersand would consist of a total ten episodes of which it is more than likely that one will lead.
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