By Earlier this month, 86-year-old filmmaker Ridley Scott said that he already had his next three directorial efforts lined up with his planned Bee Gees biopic the one moving forward first.
One of the others is expected to be the dark western movie “Wraiths of the Broken Land,” a Drew Goddard-penned adaptation of the 2013 novel by “Bone Tomahawk” filmmaker S. Craig Zahler.
Reports late last year indicated Scott was location scouting and storyboarding the film and was looking likely to make it his next. Then at some point he’s obviously cooled on it.
Now, Oscar-winning costume designer and regular Scott collaborator Janty Yates tells Awards Daily that the western film, which was going by the name “Freewalkers,” has been cancelled for the time being:
“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.
She adds that, like her boss, she has no plans to stop working until she’s physically or mentally no longer capable: “He [Scott] 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 has also been linked to a film adaptation of Kevin McMullin’s short story “Bomb,” wall street thriller “Big Dogs,” and spy thriller “Queen & Country”.
The “Bee Gees” film will shoot in early 2025.
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