OK, so his TV production of The Andromeda Strain didn't turn out that great – Ridley Scott's moving on. When the director finishes Nottingham in England, Scott (pictured) will probably be taking on Brave New World.

The man who brought us Alien and Blade Runner didn't come right out and say it, but when Eclipse Magazine asked why he hasn't made any science fiction movies in recent years, Scott replied, "I am going to do one. I waited for a book for 20 years and I have got the book. I am not going to tell you what the book is but that film is going to probably be written within the next month. That will definitely be what I do next after Nottingham, the Robin Hood film that I am doing now in England."

Couple that with reports that Leonardo DiCaprio, who starred in Scott's recently wrapped House of Lies, is pushing Universal to make Brave New World, and it seems likely that Aldous Huxley's classic nightmare vision of the future will take shape on the big screen with Maestro Scott at the helm. Huxley's granddaughter Tessa told Times Online, "There is now nothing stopping this film."

*Photo: Robert Maxwell/*Wired

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