Ridley Scott's latest sci-fi foray

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June 5, 2008


Ridley Scott, director of the seminal sci-fi masterpieces Alien and Blade Runner, looks set to return to the genre with which he made his name.

When asked in a recent interview with Eclipse Magazine whether he would make another futuristic film, he replied: "I am going to do one. I waited for a book for 20 years and I have got the book. I am not going to tell you what the book is, but that film is going to probably be written within the next month. That will definitely be what I do next after Nottingham, the Robin Hood film that I am doing now in England."

He also spoke about his upcoming adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's much praised novel Blood Meridian, suggesting it may be an X-certificate. He said: "We got it down as a screenplay and the problem is that it is so savage. But that's what it is. If you did it properly, it would be an X-certificate."

"But you can't apologise for the violence and you can't quantify the violence and you shouldn't try to explain the violence. It is what it is -- an exercise in brutality, savagery and violence. For the most part it is probably relatively accurate. It shows the flipside to Dances With Wolves of how the United States was probably taken. It was taken by the throat."

io9.com claims that Scott's sci-fi project may be an adaptation of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World, the screen rights of which are reportedly held by the father of Scott's A House of Lies star Leonardo DiCaprio. Leo might also star in the film.