Though he’s still putting the final coat of cine-paint on Exodus: Gods And Kings, Ridley Scott already has one eye on future projects, including his next job, The Martian. And from the sounds of a recent chat with Entertainment Weekly, things are progressing along with all of them.
While two of the higher profile items on his expansive To Do list – the sequels to** Blade Runner** and **Prometheus **– tend to generate eye-rolls, sighs and cries of “why?” across some corners of the web, Scott is fully intending to make at least the **Blade Runner **follow-up as soon as he can, and with Harrison Ford, for preference.
“It’s written and it’s damn good,” Scott tells the magazine’s site. “Of course it involves Harrison, who is a survivor after all these years – despite the accident.” That’s it, poke fun at a man with a broken leg! "So yes, that will happen.”
Ford’s commitment, however, remains up in the air. As for scheduling on the Blade Runner front, Scott is looking to work on it after he finishes The Martian. And then there’s the Prometheus sequel. “That’s the problem. I’ve got a lot of ducks in a row. But they’re all written.”
For The Martian, the current plan is to kick that one off in November, with Matt Damon attached to star as a stranded spaceman, the storyboards completed and locations in Budapest and Jordan’s Wadi Rum desert terrain eyed as possibilities. Exodus: Gods And Kings, meanwhile, marches in on December 26.