Ridley Scott to direct post-apocalyptic thriller ‘The Dog Stars’ with Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley
Ridley Scott of Alien and Blade Runner is teaming up with an A-list cast for post-apocalyptic thriller The Dog Stars, based on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller.
The star-studded ensemble is led by Jacob Elordi, whose role as the complicated Heathcliff in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights will hit cinemas in February 2026.
Margaret Qualley, who rose to acclaimed fame after her role in 2024’s The Substance, will star alongside Elordi. She is also starring as a lesbian detective in Ethan Coen’s upcoming crime comedy, Honey Don’t!
Josh Brolin from Avengers: Endgame, Guy Pearce from Prometheus, and Benedict Wong from Doctor Strange will also star. The film is currently being produced in Italy.
Mark L. Smith, who penned The Revenant and Twisters, has written the script, based on the 2012 book of the same name. The action is set in the near future after a pandemic decimated American society. In the book, survivors of the virus are terrorised by roaming scavengers called “Reapers.”
The plot will follow Hig (Elordi), a civilian pilot living a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine (Brolin). The two men couldn’t be more mismatched but depend on each other to fend off roaming invaders.
However, the lonely pilot’s life will change after he hears a random transmission beam through the radio of his 1956 Cessna. The voice ignites hope that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. He risks everything to fly past his point of no return and follow hopefully the static-broken trail transmitted through the radio.
Scott is producing alongside Scott Free president Michael Pruss, as well as Smith and Cliff Roberts of The Midnight Sky. More details on the announcement are expected soon.
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