After a week that saw screenwriter Travis Wright (Eagle Eye) having to debunk his own rumors about Blade Runner 2, it’s time to get wound up for real.
Ridley Scott, whose Body of Lies opened this past Friday, announced to Variety on Sunday that he would indeed return to science fiction on a project he’s long contemplated.
The Forever War follows the exploits of a draftee in an elite military unit, dragged across the universe to serve as a grunt in an unending conflict. But when he survives the alien war and comes home, he discovers to his horror that travel at the speed of light causes time to pass more slowly for him. When he returns home, 27 years on Earth have gone by- while he’s aged only a year.
“I first pursued Forever War 25 years ago, and the book has only grown more timely and relevant since,”said Scott to Variety. “It’s a science-fiction epic, a bit of “The Odyssey” by way of Blade Runner, built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.”
While you may never have heard of it, the book and its author come bearing serious sci-fi cred. Written in 1974 by Joe Haldeman, “The Forever War” won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and then he did it again in 1998 with his book “Forever Peace.” Only three other authors have accomplished that feat: Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Arthur C. Clarke. So this is officially a classic, kids. Now it's got a director to match.
The Forever War took a winding road to get here. It was originally supposed to be the directorial debut of
Oscar-winning FX master Richard Edlund (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars: Episode IV), who purchased the rights with his own money shortly after the book’s publication. It never worked out.
Meanwhile, a scant week ago in another interview, Scott confirmed that he’s working on the script for Brave New World, the classic novel by Aldous Huxley that they made you read in high school, to which Leonardo Dicaprio is attached. So which one will we see first? Don’t get too excited, as Mr. Scott says himself: “Sometimes, some surface faster than the others. It’s partly luck of the draw. Even with a good writer, he’ll do it and screw up. So then you go back to the table and start all over again, it’s hard. The hardest single thing is getting it on paper.”
No, Sir Ridley- the hardest thing is waiting on you to make your mind up. So what’ll it be, campers? The Forever War (Black Hawk Down in space) or Brave New World (another dystopian, moody atmospheric number a’la Blade Runner)?
But first he’s got to direct Russell Crowe as the titular Sheriff in Nottingham. Personally I don’t care if he makes ‘em or not, I just wanna be this busy when I’m seventy. Either way, all fans of Blade Runner can rest easy—at least, until they give it to Marcus Nispel. Then you may truly freak out.
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