Qualley, Brolin, Pearce Up For “Dog Stars”

Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin and Guy Pearce are in final talks to star in Ridley Scott’s dystopian thriller “The Dog Stars”.

Based on the Peter Heller 2012 apocalyptic thriller novel, the story unfolds in a near future where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society. A civilian pilot (Jacob Elordi) lives a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine.

The two men, though mismatched, depend on each other to fend off a roaming band of scavengers called Reapers. And when a random transmission beams through the radio of the pilot’s 1956 Cessna, the hope of a better life opens up and the pilot follows its static-broken trail.

Scott’s “Gladiator II” star Paul Mescal was originally attached to star in the film but was forced to drop out due to filming Sam Mendes‘ Beatles anthology features.

“The Revenant” and “Twisters” scribe Mark L. Smith is adapting the script for “The Dog Stars” which is expected to be Scott’s next film after he wraps his Bee Gees biopic at Paramount.

Smith, Cliff Roberts and Scott Free are producing. Elordi is currently shooting the final season of “Euphoria” for HBO.

Source: THR

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