Ridley Scott Movie Updates

Its Universal deal may be a thing of the past, but Hasbro is still moving forward on translating its properties for the big-screen.

Michael Douglas is ready to be sworn in as the 40th president of the United States.

Ridley Scott and Steve Zaillian will produce a reimagining of the BBC's The Day Britain Stopped for Fox.

Relativity Media has closed deals with Oscar-winner Christian Bale (The Fighter), Oscar-nominated Casey Affleck (The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford), Zoe Saldana (Avatar) and Oscar-nominated Sam Shepard (Safe House) to star as the lead roles in the upcoming gripping and gritty drama currently titled Out o ...

Ridley Scott is in talks to direct the Cormac McCarthy-scripted drama The Counselor. Scott intends to make it his next film and his followup to Prometheus, the 3D space film which Fox releases this summer.

Joe Carnahan has landed a new gig: He's being hired to write and direct a remake of Death Wish, the 1974 vigilante picture that helped put Charles Bronson on the map, according to a person familiar with the project who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak about it publicly.

Brit helmer Stephen Frears and scribe D.V. DeVincentis are set to work together once again.

After revisiting his classic Alien with the upcoming 3D Fox film Prometheus, Ridley Scott is committing to direct and produce a film that advances his other seminal and groundbreaking science fiction film. Scott has signed on to direct and produce a new installment of Blade Runner. He’ll make the film with Alcon Entertainment, p ...

Projects involving Rowan Joffe, Emma Thompson and Christmas are among those planned for the British arm of Ridley and Tony Scott's production company.

Fox 2000 has set Matt Reeves to direct The Passage, the film based on the bestselling Justin Cronin novel about an experiment that goes awry and creates a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires that brings the world to the brink of extinction.

Contrary to earlier reports, Ridley Scott will not be directing the film adaption of Jordan Belfort’s 1990 best seller The Wolf of Wall Street at Warner Bros. Instead, Vulture has learned exclusively, the project has left the studio, and Scott has left the project. Replacing him: Director Martin Scorsese, who’ll shoot his fellow ...

Warner Bros. has scooped up David Liss' period novel A Conspiracy of Paper for Ridley and Tony Scott to produce through their Scott Free banner.

Oscar-winning Brokeback Mountain scribes Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana are in the midst of two major period Western feature films projects. They are scripting The Color of Lightning for Ridley Scott to direct at 20th Century Fox, and they are at the center of a new deal at Warner Bros to adapt the S. C. Gwynne book Empire of t ...

Few directors get hardcore film fans excited as much as Park Chan-wook, the South Korean auteur behind the international favorite "Oldboy." Now those fans could get to see Park direct an English-language movie featuring major stars.

Mark Bomback ("Unstoppable") is diving into "Shadow Divers" and will pen the true-life adventure for Fox 2000 with Scott Free producing.

Rowan Joffe, the helmer behind Toronto title Brighton Rock, is set to write and direct an adaptation of Brit scribe Steve Watson's debut novel "Before I Go to Sleep" with Ridley Scott's shingle Scott Free U.K producing and StudioCanal exec producing.

Robert Schwentke, whose upcoming Helen Mirren-Bruce Willis-John Malkovich shoot-em-up "Red" got a big Comic-Con reaction, has taken the plunge on "Shadow Divers", the Fox 2000 adaptation of the Robert Kurson book.

Hollywood newcomer Andrew Will's spec script "Archangels" is in development at New Regency and "Tron Legacy" director Joseph Kosinski has just come aboard to produce the sci-fi movie with Scott Free's Ridley and Tony Scott.

Leonardo DiCaprio may partner with Ridley Scott for an adaptation of "The Wolf of Wall Street", reports Deadline.

Right now Fox, through its label Fox 2000, is getting ready to bet on sci-fi again and is the lead contender to pick up an original spec script by Will Dunn titled “Ion," which is generating interest from several studios. Channing Tatum is attached to star in what is labeled a sci-fi romantic epic, with Ridley and Tony ...