Ridley Returns To Sci Fi - Could It Be Ender?

By Josh Tyler: 2008-06-05 03:45:54

Even though the movie sucked, Ridley Scott earned back some of the respectability he’d lost with crummy movies like Kingdom of Heaven last year, when he made American Gangster and subsequently sold a million posters to gangbangers looking for something to hang next to the Scarface poster in their garages. But I’m here to tell you Ridley hasn’t really been Ridley since Bladerunner. Sure he’s made some acceptable movies but let’s face it, when you think of Ridley Scott you’re really thinking of the guy that made famous characters like Ripley and Decker.

Well good news for the two of you who agree with me and aren’t planning to email me death threats over this bold proclamation. Ridley Scott is returning to science fiction. He promised to do so in a recent interview with Eclipse Magazine. When asked why he doesn’t do more Sci Fi, Ridley said: “I am going to do one. 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 after Nottingham, the Robin Hood film that I am doing now in England.”

Nottingham is the movie he’s doing with Russell Crowe, where the Sheriff of Nottingham is the good guy, and Robin Hood is the total dick we’ve always suspected he was. But what’s this mysterious science fiction book he’s talking about? Ridley doesn’t offer any answers, but I may have one.

Back in March of this year the LA Times ran a brief blurb buried in a long meandering story, in which they claim that Ridley Scott was working on directing a movie version of Aldus Huxley’s classic sci fi novel Brave New World. At the time, word was Leonardo di Caprio was supposed to star in it. But that’s old news, which makes you wonder if Brave New World is what Ridley was talking about, why not just say that since the cat is already out of the bag.

So maybe he’s talking Brave New World, and maybe he’s not. Let’s engage in a little bit of fun, almost certainly wrong, speculation. Think of another great science fiction book more than 20 years old, which has been floating around out there trying and failing to get made into a movie, and which might have recently been freed up and come into Ridley’s possession. Got an answer? I have one. What about “Ender’s Game”?

Ridley Scott has actually been rumored to be involved in the making of an Ender’s Game movie before, but that rumor was shot down by the book’s author Orson Scott Card. That doesn’t mean it couldn’t happen now, and the fact that he was rumored could indicate there may have been at least some real interest in doing it on Ridley’s part. At one point Wolfgang Peterson was supposed to be directing the movie, but in April of this year word was that Peterson was leaving the project, and the film’s producers were beginning the hunt for a new director. I can’t imagine anyone better to helm it, and Card, ornery asshole that he is, has been rather vocal about settling for nothing less than a top notch director. It’s too perfect, and things this perfect almost never seem to come true.

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