Saltburn and Priscilla star Jacob Elordi is in talks to steer Ridley Scott’s upcoming pandemic thriller The Canine Stars.
The world is Jacob Elordi’s oyster after crushing his function as Felix Catton in Emerald Fennell’s horny and psychotic thriller Saltburn and lining up tasks like Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, new episodes of Euphoria, and reteaming with Fennell for her adaptation of Wuthering Heights. Unafraid to pile his plate excessive with promising elements, Jacob Elordi is in talks to hitch the forged of Ridley Scott’s pandemic thriller The Canine Stars.
The Canine Stars hails from twentieth Century Studios and is predicated on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller (Burn, The River, The Painter, The Final Ranger). Initially, Scott was reteaming with Gladiator II star Paul Mescal for The God Stars, however scheduling conflicts along with his half in Sam Mendes’ Beatles anthology saved him from collaborating. Sources say Mescal performs Paul McCartney in Mendes’ upcoming movie, making him important to the undertaking.
Elordi would play Hig in The Canine Stars, a civilian pilot dwelling a lonely life on an deserted Colorado airbase along with his canine and a hard-as-nails ex-marine. When a band of scavengers referred to as The Reapers invades their house, Hig and his compatriots should put together for battle.
Right here’s a synopsis of Heller’s novel:
“Hig’s wife is gone, his friends are dead, and he lives in the hangar of a small abandoned airport with his dog, Jasper, and a mercurial, gun-toting misanthrope named Bangley. But when a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside him 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, only to find something that is both better and worse than anything he could ever hope for.”
Mark L. Smith, who wrote The Revenant and the upcoming Netflix mini-series American Primeval, is partnering with Christopher Wilkinson (Ali, Nixon, Delivery of the Dragon) to pen the screenplay. Ridley Scott will possible hunker down on The Canine Stars after finishing work on You Ought to Be Dancing, a biopic specializing in one of many best-selling teams of all time, The Bee Gees.
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