{"id":292383,"date":"2025-12-01T02:53:04","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292383\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:53:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:53:04","slug":"were-officially-6-months-away-from-ridley-scotts-first-sci-fi-movie-in-9-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292383\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re Officially 6 Months Away From Ridley Scott’s First Sci-Fi Movie In 9 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ridley Scott is certainly a sci-fi genius, with films like Alien<\/a>, Blade Runner, The Martian, and so many more under his belt. It\u2019s been nearly a decade since we\u2019ve had a sci-fi movie from the man himself, but that wait is nearly over\u2014as 2026 gets closer, so does the debut of his newest step into science fiction.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Based on the novel of the same name by Peter Heller, which came out in 2012, The Dog Stars already boasts a star-studded cast, with names like Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, and Benedict Wong. The film takes place in the aftermath of a devastating virus that nearly wiped out humanity as a whole. It follows Hig, a pilot played by Elordi, and a former marine, played by Brolin, as they face violent, roaming scavengers called Reapers and cope with intense loss.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What Comes Next From Ridley Will Definitely Be Sci-Fi Greatness<\/p>\n

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With very few flops to his name, Ridley Scott has been described as \u201cthe very best eye in the business\u201d by producer Michael Deeley. And it was actually the success of Star Wars: A New Hope that got Scott well and truly interested in sci-fi as a genre, leading to his direction of Alien, one of the biggest films in sci-fi history. But it\u2019s been quite some time since we\u2019ve gotten another science fiction gem from the director, with Alien: Covenant<\/a> back in 2017 being the last\u2014a film that wasn\u2019t particularly well received by audiences or critics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cPrometheus was too big of a departure for some die-hard fans. Covenant tries to lure them back with good action and effects while still giving time to Scott\u2019s philosophical ruminations and mythology building,\u201d said Keith Garlington of Keith & the Movies<\/a>. Matt Brunson of Film Frenzy<\/a> said, \u201cWorking in references to Milton, Michelangelo and Percy Shelley\u2019s \u201cOzymandias\u201d rather than to Marvel, mutants and Depp\u2019s Jack Sparrow, it\u2019s clear that Alien: Covenant isn\u2019t a typical summer blockbuster,\u201d while Jason Adams of My New Plaid Pants<\/a> claims, \u201cThere\u2019s just no coherence to the film\u2019s timeline \u2013 face-huggers turn into chest-bursters turn into ten-foot tall xenomorphs within minutes when dictated to do so by the rando needs of the plot; entire sections seem stomped into acidic mush.\u201d<\/p>\n

No matter what your thoughts on Ridley\u2019s last venture into sci-fi were, it\u2019s a fact that The Dog Stars promises to be nothing short of spectacular\u2014in casting, direction, and story.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Are you excited for The Dog Stars to debut in theaters next year? Let us know in the comments, and then head over to the ComicBook forum to see what other film fans are saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott is certainly a sci-fi genius, with films like Alien, Blade Runner, The Martian, and so many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,1092,32936,118407,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-292383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-regular-news","11":"tag-ridley-scott","12":"tag-the-dog-stars","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}