If the 73 year old filmmaker
Sir. Ridley Scott was to actually make all of the projects he attaches himself to direct then he would have to live until he was 200 years old and not take a day off in his life. Yes, he really has that many films potentially in the offing. Currently filming his probable Alien prequel
Prometheus, Scott has set up a ton of projects that he could pull the trigger on as his next movie once he has that one out of the way, including; Adaptations of the sci-fi classic novels
Brave New World and
The Forever War, a film noir with Casey Affleck titled
The Kind One, an adaptation of the
Monopoly board game, a biopic of fashion icon
Gucci, the soviet thriller
Child 44 - plus potential further entries in his
Robin Hood saga AND more
Alien movies. There's probably a dozen more I haven't spoken about either (I would be looking all day in our archives to find them), and indeed just this past week his American remake of his own produced 70's Brit crime drama
Red Ridinghired James Vanderbilt to scribe the script, a movie he presumably hopes to direct. So with all these projects being developed, why the hell not add one more to the pile, eh?
Screen Daily are reporting that Brit production company Headline Pictures have confirmed out in Cannes that they have attached Scott to direct the political drama
Reykjavik - a movie about the two-day
1986 summit in the Icelandic capital featuring U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Secretary-General Mikhail Gorbachev which helped end the Cold War. Potentially a movie like Frost/Nixon then?
Kevin Hood, writer of the Jane Austen rom-com
Becoming Jane starring Anne Hathaway and James McAvoy, is responsible for the script which dates back at least three years ago when Scott first sniffed his interest. For whatever reason Scott has revitalised his interest and I guess there's no reason to consider that this couldn't be his next picture after Prometheus. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0s1UaLT40o I love movies about American history and politics and this meeting sure had wider global importance. Scott wouldn't have been an obvious choice to direct a movie like Frost/Nixon - but I'm definitely intrigued and I wouldn't be disappointed if this one quickly gathers pace.