Ridley Scott's return to sci-fi is revealed...

And it won't be BRAVE NEW WORLD, as previously rumored. Instead Ridley Scott's first science fiction film for over two decades will be THE FOREVER WAR, an adaptation of Joe Haldman's 1974 novel that follows a soldier who battles an enemy in deep space for a few months only to return home to a planet he doesn't recognize twenty years later. It's said that Scott wanted to originally film the movie straight after his back-to-back classics ALIEN and BLADE RUNNER but rights complications in the mid 80's meant he had to give up on the project and his career took him on a different path. Calling the project as timely as it was then, Scott told Variety...

"It€™s a science-fiction epic, a bit of €˜The Odyssey€™ by way of €˜Blade Runner,€™ built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise.

The novel was set to be adapted by Oscar winning visual effects guru Richard Edlund who worked on RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and he had even raised $400,000 of his own money for the rights to make the project as his directorial debut. But Edlund never took the leap into directing and when Scott came calling six months ago, he was ready to make the deal and give up on his baby. THE FOREVER WAR, seems to have a big fan following and it's premise is way more complicated than laid out in this article. WIKI seem to have it nailed down, if you wanna read more. Fox 2000 and Scott Free productions are financing the film with the hunt for a screenwriter underway. It's thought this won't film before NOTTINGHAM which is still set to shoot early next Spring.