April 21, 2009

Ridley Scott's Forever War (2012-2013)



Ridley Scott has a bunch of projects in development including Monopoly & The Kind One. Along with his revisioning of Robin Hood which will be released in 2010. It's rumored that his next film will be the massive science fiction epic based on the novel by Joe Haldeman. Scott has been trying to gather the rights to novel since the early 1980's. It will be Ridley's first science fiction film since 1982's Bladerunner and is highly anticpated. Depending on the success there is a possiblity of a sequel or even a trilogy. Although Scott has yet to make a sequel to one of his films. The two other novels titled "Forever Free" and "Forever Peace" along with the comicbooks could be used as source material for a trilogy.



Ridley recently said after visiting the set of Avatar, he's become inspired to use the same methods Cameron has developed on Forever War. This could mean Weta Workshop might be hired to create weapons, alien environments, vehicles, starships and special/creature effects.

Casting Thoughts:



Leonardo DiCaprio, Henry Cavill (Tutors) or Orlando Bloom as William Mandella.

“Private William Mandella is a hero in spite of himself — a reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, and propelled through space and time to fight in a distant thousand-year conflict. He never wanted to go to war, but the leaders on Earth have drawn a line in the interstellar sand — despite the fact that their fierce alien enemy is unknowable, unconquerable, and very far away. So Mandella will perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through the military’s ranks . . . if he survives. But the true test of his mettle will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the time dilation caused by space travel the loyal soldier is aging months, while his home planet is aging centuries — and the difference will prove the saying: you never can go home”.

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