Scott Goes To ‘Forever War’

One of my favorite directors, Sir Ridley Scott, is finally returning to his strongest and most successful  themes….Sci-Fi. It was announced that  FOX 2000  has obtained the rights to Joe Haldeman’s “The Forever War.”  Scott said the story, “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.” Initially slated  to be a  directorial debut for  Richard Edlund, the visual effects genius behind ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark,’  ‘The Forever War’  never got  beyond  the developmental phase…til now.

Ever since his Oscar-winning ‘Gladiator,’ Scott hasn’t quite been on his game. So glad to see he’s back in his element from which he sprang.  ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner’ are the I-Ching  of the Sci-Fi genre. Scott will direct ‘War,’ a Scott-Free production,  after finishing  ‘Nottingham.’

Source: Variety