His most recent film saw him spending time on another cinematic planet thanks to The Martian. For a potential new project, Ridley Scott is looking to return soundly to Earth, setting up an adaptation of S. Craig Zahler's Western novel Wraiths Of The Broken Land.
And it'll provide a reunion for some of Team Martian, with 20th Century Fox also securing the services of writer Drew Goddard and producer Simon Kinberg.
Wraiths, is a violent story set near the Mexican border as the 20th Century began. It sees a group of men form up and traverse the badlands in the hunt for their captive sisters. They're willing to do anything they deem necessary, putting aside morals and ethics in their mission, and sanity starts to collapse. It certainly sounds like something the man who made Bone Tomahawk would have written...
Of course, this one will have to compete with the various possible movies competing for Scott's typically busy schedule, but Deadline's report makes it sound like he's making this a priority, particularly given the people involved. The director is currently shooting Alien: Covenant, which will arrive on August 4 next year. Goddard, developed Daredevil for TV, is returning to the Marvel TV base to oversee Netflix's The Defenders, which unites the devil of Hell's Kitchen, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.