Last November, Ridley Scott told The New Yorker that he was location scouting and storyboarding his next film, a western, presumably set shoot in March. This was rumored to be his take on S. Craig Zahler’s novel “Wraiths of the Broken Land.”
Earlier this month, I reported that the project was shelved and that Scott would be directing a Bee Gees biopic instead as his next film instead. Now we have Oscar-winning costume designer Janty Yates admitting (via AwardsDaily) the film is indeed canceled and that, up until March of this year, she and Scott were working on the Western, which she confirms was called “Freewalkers”:
It’s a film that’s not going to happen because it’s set in the snow, and it’s called "Freewalkers". Basically, the snow went. By the time we prepped it, we would have been shooting in mid-summer. I don’t know what will happen. We shall see. I would love if it would happen because it’s such a gorgeous script.
At 86, and with a slew of upcoming projects on his IMDB page, Scott doesn’t appear to be retiring anytime soon, and Yates believes that Scott will keep making films right until his body shuts down:
He will be taken off set in a box, as will I. What am I going to do? Golf? I don’t think so. It’s the love of your life. It’s your passion.
Scott is currently attached to direct four projects. Firstly, there’s his adaptation of Kevin McMullin’s short story “BOMB,” the Wall Street thriller “Big Dogs” and the spy thriller “Queen & Country.” However, “Bee Gees” is next and shooting is set commence in early 2025.