Fox has just acquired the rights to Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel The Forever War and Ridley Scott is already gearing up for this movie to it his first science fiction film since he delivered back to back classics with Blade Runner and Alien.
The film has been long overdue on Ridley Scott’s list of movie but due to delay in acquiring the rights for the movie. It took more than two decades to get them.
The film will be produced by Scott Free. “I first pursued ‘Forever War’ 25 years ago, and the book has only grown more timely and relevant since,” Scott told Daily Variety. “It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of ‘The Odyssey’ by way of ‘Blade Runner,’ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.”
Book revolves around a soldier who battles an enemy in deep space for only a few months, only to return home to a planet he doesn’t recognize some 20 years later, Scott said.
The Forever War was one of the pet projects of Richard Edlund who spent his own money to buy the rights to make the book his directorial debut. But the book didn’t materialize. He won two Oscars for Raider of the Lost Ark. Ridley Scott plans to make Nottingham with Ridley Scott in a double role. He has just released his Loenardo Di Caprio starrer Body of Lies.
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