After an interview with Eclipsemagazine.com giving details about his new films "House of Lies", "Nottingham" and "Blood Meridian" Scott reveled his next movie after "Nottingham" will be a new science fiction flick.“I waited for a book for 20 years and I have got the book. I am not going to tell you what the book is but that film is going to probably be written within the next month. That will definitely be what I do next”. I'm so happy Ridley Scott is doing another sci-fi project although I enjoy a majority of his films although his talent is creating new worlds. Like with his genre defining films like Legend, Alien and Bladerunner which all have set the standards. It's very unlikely that Scott will be making another Alien movie but it would be interesting what he's going to tackle next.
An article from the Los Angeles Times back in March gives more details about the "book" Ridley Scott may be speaking of. The article reveals Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio were pursing a movie adaption of the classic novel "Brave New World". This project could have died off and Scott may have moved onto another great book. Yet it would be exciting to see this story come to life on screen. I was forced to read the novel in my highschool English class and I was pleasantly surprised by it's content and semi-accurate vision of the future. I wouldn't be surprised to see both Russell Crowe who has previously worked on five films with the director and DiCaprio starring in the project no matter what story he chooses.
"In a future society based on pleasure without moral worries, love is prohibited but casual sex, now called 'engaging', is strongly encouraged. Everyone is kept happy with a legal drug, soma. People are hatched and cloned on conveyor belts to meet the requirements of five different social classes, from ruling Alphas to robot-like Epsilons. Bernard Marx is a different Alpha male with an inclination to thinking. He and a girl called Lenina Disney go visit a reservation of 'savages' where they meet a handsome young man John and bring him back to 'civilization'. John turns out to be the son of the director of the cloning authority, which causes a scandal and makes John a celebrity freak. John falls in love with Lenina but his desire is ruined by his antiquated sexual morale derived from reading Shakespeare. John hates the over-social but anti-emotional civilization, asks to be sent to live in isolation, and gets a job as a lighthouse guard. But even there he can't forget Lenina or escape his celebrity status."
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