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As he dives back into the arena with Gladiator IIin a week at the cinema, Ridley Scott is already seeing the rest of his career. The 86-year-old director has a biopic about Bee Gees in sight. Filming will begin early next year for Paramount.
The 1970s disco group will keep him busy for many months, so his production company, Scott Free, continues to look for other top directors to carry out his side projects currently in development. “I know what I'm going to do for the next three years” assures Ridley Scott in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. “My next projects are written and ready to go. All we need are great directors capable of managing this kind of budget. You can have the best horse in the world, but if you don’t have a good jockey, the horse won’t win.”
Ridley Scott On the other hand, he keeps a western for himself, one of his great dreams of making it for years.
Scott Free had attempted to develop a film adaptation of the novel Blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy or an adapted series Blood and Thunder of Hampton Sides, but none of these projects received a green light from a studio. “I am a fanatic of the American wild west, confides the Briton. “And I’ve never done one before!”
For one simple reason: period films are always the most difficult projects to sell to studios. “A friend always tells me about these period projects: they are ready to do it but never want to put money into it…“
In any case, after the Bee Gees, Ridley Scott intends to make a western. Time is running out for the soon-to-be nonagenarian director.