{"id":396151,"date":"2026-04-17T00:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396151\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T00:58:08","slug":"jacob-elordi-josh-brolin-in-ridley-scott-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/396151\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin in Ridley Scott Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t20th Century has released the first trailer for <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ridley-scott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ridley-scott\" data-tag=\"ridley-scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ridley Scott<\/a>\u2018s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-dog-stars\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-dog-stars\" data-tag=\"the-dog-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Dog Stars<\/a>,\u201d marking the first look at the post-apocalyptic thriller. The film hits theaters Aug. 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe film is based on Peter Heller\u2019s 2012 novel and has been adapted for the screen by Mark L. Smith, whose previous works include \u201cTwisters\u201d and \u201cThe Revenant.\u201d Starring <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jacob-elordi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jacob-elordi\" data-tag=\"jacob-elordi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Elordi<\/a> as Hig, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/josh-brolin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_josh-brolin\" data-tag=\"josh-brolin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Brolin<\/a> as Bangley and Margaret Qualley as Cima, the film follows a civilian pilot and ex-Marine as they navigate the aftermath of a pandemic that has wiped out nearly the entire population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Dog Stars\u201d is Scott\u2019s first film after directing 2024\u2019s \u201cGladiator II,\u201d and it marks his return to 20th Century Studios, where he had a 5-year run from 2012 to 2017 with releases including \u201cPrometheus\u201d and \u201cThe Martian.\u201d Originally slated ahead of \u201cThe Dog Stars,\u201d his next directorial feature was set to be a Bee Gees biopic at Paramount Pictures, but that was paused after <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/ridley-scott-bee-gees-biopic-delayed-paramount-deal-issues-1236274227\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott stated that \u201cthe studio changed the goalposts<\/a>.\u201d The director pivoted his focus to the sci-fi project instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tPaul Mescal, who starred in Scott\u2019s \u201cGladiator\u201d sequel, was originally set to play the leading role in \u201cThe Dog Stars,\u201d but exited in early 2025, citing scheduling conflicts tied to Sam Mendes\u2019 Beatles biopics. In Jan. 2025, Variety first <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/jacob-elordi-replace-paul-mescal-ridley-scott-the-dog-stars-1236267363\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported <\/a>that Elordi was in talks to replace Mescal for the leading role, while noting that his schedule was similarly packed while he filmed both \u201cWuthering Heights\u201d and the third season of HBO\u2019s \u201cEuphoria.\u201d Despite the scheduling chaos, Elordi remained tied to the project, which began production in Italy in April 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the trailer below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"20th Century has released the first trailer for Ridley Scott\u2018s \u201cThe Dog Stars,\u201d marking the first look at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,5039,51640,29036,112810],"class_list":{"0":"post-396151","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jacob-elordi","12":"tag-josh-brolin","13":"tag-ridley-scott","14":"tag-the-dog-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}