When Ridley Scott casually dropped that Paul Mescal was starring in Sam Mendes’ movies about The Beatles, he also said that it might cause the Oscar-nominated actor to drop out of another project. That would be Scott’s sci-fi film The Dog Stars, which Mescal was attached to lead. Well, Scott wasn’t kidding around, and has already found Mescal’s replacement.
According to Variety, Jacob Elordi has stepped in to replace Mescal in The Dog Stars. So trading one red-hot actor for another.
Penned by Mark L. Smith, The Dog Stars is based on Peter Heller’s book set in the near future “where an unnamed pandemic has decimated American society. A civilian pilot lives a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado airbase with his dog and a tough ex-marine. The two men couldn’t be more mismatched but depend on each other to fend off roaming invaders. When a random transmission beams through the radio of his 1956 Cessna, the voice ignites a hope deep inside the pilot that a better life exists outside their tightly controlled perimeter. Risking everything, he flies past his point of no return and follows its static-broken trail.”
Elordi has been on quite a roll, starring in Saltburn, Priscilla, and Oh, Canada. He’ll also star in Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein and Emerald Fennell’s version of Wuthering Heights.
