Although he may be approaching 87, Sir Ridley Scott shows no sign of slowing down, with multiple projects on the go.
Aside from already developing Gladiator III as Gladiator II is about to hit cinemas, the Hollywood director continues to bring historical epics like Napoleon to the big screen.
The latest from The Hollywood Reporter is that he’s working on a new British World War II movie about the Battle of Britain.
This is Scott’s passion project, originally announced at 20th Century Fox in 2017 before the studio’s merger with Disney.
Now he’s got a new screenwriter, Joe Penhall, working on the script, so here’s hoping the Second World War epic will finally get greenlit.
The Battle of Britain, which was previously adapted into a movie in 1969, was the 1940 British air campaign of the same name during a crucial point in the fight against the Nazis. Hitler had conquered France and was seeking a peace settlement with Great Britain, following the Allied evacuation from Dunkirk.
The German dictator sent in his Luftwaffe planes over the channel hoping to convince the new Prime Minister Winston Churchill to agree to this during their “darkest hour”. However, from July to October 1940, the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm defended the British Isles preventing Operation Sea Lion; Hitler’s planned invasion.