{"id":383541,"date":"2026-04-17T02:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383541\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T02:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T02:56:11","slug":"jacob-elordi-takes-flight-in-ridley-scotts-the-dog-stars-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/383541\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi Takes Flight in Ridley Scott&#8217;s The Dog Stars Trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jacob-elordi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jacob-elordi_1\" data-tag=\"jacob-elordi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Elordi<\/a> is keeping booked and busy, with his latest project on display during Disney\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/cinemacon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cinemacon_1\" data-tag=\"cinemacon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CinemaCon<\/a> presentation on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe thriller tells the story of Hig (played by Elordi), a young pilot who, together with a military survivalist, Bangley (Josh Brolin), has carved out an efficient but isolated homestead in a brutal post-apocalyptic world. But that changes when a mysterious radio transmission spurs Hig to venture into the unknown in search of the hope and humanity he still\u00a0believes exists.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/ridley-scott\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ridley-scott_1\" data-tag=\"ridley-scott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ridley Scott<\/a> is in the director\u2019s chair, with a theatrical release date set for Aug. 28. Based on Peter Heller\u2019s bestseller, the film also stars Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong and Allison Janney. The film is written by Mark L. Smith and produced by Scott, Michael Pruss and Cliff Roberts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe trailer arrived in Las Vegas \u2014 following a virtual appearance from Scott \u2014 at the same time it went public, and starts with Elordi and Qualley as a married couple excitedly bringing home a dog. Cut to a short time later and Elordi and the dog are solo; Brolin\u2019s character asks him, \u201cSo what\u2019d you do before the world ended?\u201d Elordi\u2019s Hig replies, \u201d\u00a0I was kissing my wife, playing with my dog, wondering every day how I got so lucky.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHe then is shown setting out on his own via a classic plane, and in flashback scenes with his wife sits around a fire as she admits, \u201cI don\u2019t like the feeling of wondering if you\u2019re gonna come back.\u201d The footage ends with Elordi taking flight as he\u2019s chased by men on horseback, who leap onto the wing of his plane. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPaul Mescal was originally set to lead the project, reteaming with Scott after Gladiator II, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/margaret-qualley-josh-brolin-guy-pearce-the-dog-stars-1236134852\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Elordi came on board<\/a> when Mescal had to drop out due to film Sam Mendes\u2019 four-film Beatles project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacob Elordi is keeping booked and busy, with his latest project on display during Disney\u2019s CinemaCon presentation on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[173642,156,13271,409,111,139,69,106534,106535],"class_list":{"0":"post-383541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-cinemacon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jacob-elordi","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-ridley-scott","16":"tag-the-dog-stars"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}