Peter Heller’s novel The Dog Stars is coming to the big screen, courtesy of workaholic director Ridley Scott. It’s a post-apocalyptic tale, but it is said to be one that audiences haven’t quite experienced before. The film doesn’t just deal with how people try to survive in their current state of no hope, but also with “why bother?” We’ll see how that works out for them when the film reaches theatres on August 28th – and with that date still a couple of months away, a trailer for The Dog Stars has dropped online. You can watch it in the embed above.
Who stars in The Dog Stars?
The cast includes rumored James Bond contender Jacob Elordi (Euphoria) alongside Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Guy Pearce (Memento), and Benedict Wong (Weapons).
Shortly after wrapping the film, Ridley Scott said it might be his best movie. “The one I just finished, The Dog Stars, [shot for just 34 days]. It’s the speed of a TV show, but maybe my best movie. Every movie is a discovery of who you are, and making choices about actors. Before I speak to anybody, I look at everything they’ve done. I cast Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, and Josh Brolin. Frequently, the biggest thing I’m good at is casting. If they’re available, normally I get them.“
What is The Dog Stars about?
Elordi stars as Hig, a pilot living in near-isolation in an airplane hangar with only his dog and a hardened gunman for company in the aftermath of a pandemic. But when a mysterious radio transmission comes through, he risks everything during a journey into the unknown.
The official plot description for this “riveting, epic thriller” reads:
Set in a near future after an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society, the story follows Hig (Elordi), a civilian pilot living a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine (Brolin). The two men couldn’t be more mismatched but depend on each other to fend off roaming invaders. When a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside the pilot that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail.
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