Paul Mescal has been cast in Ridley Scott’s next movie titled The Dog Stars. Deadline reports both the actor and director will re-team for The Dog Stars, which is an adaptation of a 2012 novel written by Peter Heller. The movie, which will be distributed by 20th Century Studios, is now expected to begin filming next spring. Scott’s upcoming Bee Gees biopic for Paramount will “likely” follow for Scott in fall 2025.
“The Dog Stars is set in a near future where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society,” a description of the plot reads. “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.”
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