From visionary director Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner), The Dog Stars will soar into theaters on August 28, 2026 via 20th Century Studios.
Based on the 2012 novel by Peter Heller, the post-apocalyptic thriller is written by Mark L. Smith (The Revenant, Twisters).
Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein), Josh Brolin (Weapons), Guy Pearce (Prometheus), Margaret Qualley (The Substance), and Benedict Wong (Weapons) star.
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, a virus wipes out humanity and survivors face roaming scavengers called Reapers. The story centers on Hig (Elordi), a civilian pilot who lost his wife to the disease.
Hig lives 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 Reapers.
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, Hig flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail.
Ridley is actually a shockingly consistent director. The big career slump he got known for was during a period where almost all his focus was on his brother's mental health. No surprise that he wasn't putting out his best work. But he came back to full form spectacularly with The Martian, and he's always had a real knack for scifi. I think it's OK to be optimistic about this one.
His movies are good despite him, not because of him.
https://www.highonfilms.com/shocking-alien-1979-original-ending/
Russell Crowe had to fight to not have any sex scenes in Gladiator.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/10/russell-crowe-criticises-gladiator-ii
He doesn't understand the stories he's putting to screen.
What are you talking about that ending sounds awesome
Not. At. All.
Alien is a story about survival, with allusions to sexual assault. Ripley living to fight another day is the reason why it works. Otherwise it would've ended up with other crappy slasher movies.
Ah, good to know that the criteria for being good at anything is "Literally never making a single questionable call ever in your entire life long career." That's a totally reasonable and normal standard to apply to anything.
He consistently misunderstands his works. Blade runner is one of them. Man did not know what he made or why it worked and infamously tried to push an idea that made no sense in his final final FINAL cut of the film, despite everyone disagreeing with him.
Raised by wolves was pure gold
The fact that we'll never get the rest of Raised By Wolves is a fucking tragedy. Easily one of the most weird and inventive new IPs we've gotten in years. I have no idea if they were going to stick the landing - big danger that it could have ended up as another Lost - but god did I want to see them try.
I, maybe naively, hope we'll get some novels or a cartoon or just SOMETHING to tie it off.
It desparately needs a proper novelization. And I normally hate novelizations.
The Martian fucking sucked bro. Matt Damon plays Matt Damon on mars and does everything while making quips but there's also one scene where they desperately try to show him as weak but then he continues to do everything.
Comparing it to Alien it falls so flat. Tension, stakes, problem solving, survival, humanity, relatability are all done so much better in Alien. All the Martian did was pump out charisma and feel good vibes to delight and distract the audience, everything about it felt manufactured. It's a rom-com disguised as a sci-fi thriller.
If you genuinely think The Martian is a bad movie, I have nothing to say to you. You're clearly not operating on any metric of good film-making that's even tangentially related to the reality most people live in. But I do hope you're enjoying yourself out there wherever you are.
It's bad in the sense that white bread is bad. It's bland and uninspired with the sole purpose of being consumable and leaving an impression of being enjoyable. How anyone can be pulled in by the likeable man does everything and has to make no decisions storyline is beyond me. The dialogue too, who's hearing "I have to science the shit out of this" and being impressed; Ghostbusters 2016 tier. Trailer bait movie. Infact the trailer is better because it delivers everything the movie does in a tenth of the time.