You’ve got to hand it to Ridley Scott, he’s 88 and has a bunch of projects in development, many of which I presume will never see the light of day.
The most intriguing out of these 7 or 8 projects is the western he’s been hinting about, written in 1980 by a mysterious screenwriter whom he says passed away during covid. He wants to shoot it next year.
We can add another project in the mix (via Collider) — Scott says he has a “Pirate movie” he wants to get going. Scott didn’t go into detail, and there’s no telling if the pirate project he’s eyeing is the same one he flirted with back in the early 2000s — but it’s an intriguing enough development to mention.
I still have to do a musical. I still have to do a pirate movie. I still have to do a Western
This isn’t exactly a new ambition. After wrapping 2001’s “Black Hawk Down,” Scott briefly considered directing “Captain Kidd,” a Disney project that would’ve been produced by Jerry Bruckheimer. The film would’ve followed 17th-century privateer-turned-pirate William Kidd, famously portrayed by Charles Laughton in the 1945 classic.
Scott is currently shooting “The Dog Stars,” a post apocalyptic film starring Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, and Josh Brolin. He’s also supposed to go into production on his Bee Gees biopic for Paramount in November — Elordi is rumored to have the main role on that one, playing the group’s lead singer Barry Gibb.
All this, and Scott still has other projects percolating in development, including “Gladiator III,” “Bomb,” and “Battle of Britain.” The man is a machine.