00:00Ridley Scott and Paul Meskel are joining forces once again for the thriller The Dog Stars.
00:06Meskel is in advance talks to star in Scott's next movie, which is expected to shoot in 2025
00:11after the filmmaker completes work on an untitled Bee Gees movie at Paramount.
00:16The Dog Stars will see Scott work with 20th Century Studios.
00:20The project, based on Peter Heller's 2012 apocalyptic thriller that Mark L. Smith is adapting,
00:25is set in a near future when an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society.
00:29It follows a civilian pilot, his dog, and a tough ex-Marine who live on an abandoned Colorado airbase.
00:35This news comes as Scott's film Gladiator 2, starring Meskel, is about to hit theaters later this month.
00:41Strength to mother!
00:44I don't fight for power.
00:48I fight to free road for men like them.
00:51Back in August, Scott spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about casting Meskel in Gladiator 2.
00:56How did you know Paul Meskel was the right person to lead that film?
00:59I'm good at that, that's how.
01:00I watch shit and I go, that's f***, who's that guy?
01:03I'm good at it.
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