As if filming a sprawling biblical epic wasn't enough to keep him busy, Ridley Scott is already laying the groundwork for a new project about the devastating aftereffects of concussions on professional football players.

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Scott is still in the middle of principle photography on Exodus, which stars Christian Bale as Moses along with Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul , Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley and Joel Edgerton. But that hasn’t stopped the director and his producing partner, Giannina Facio, from meeting with “A-list writers for what he hopes will be his next project.”“Scott wants to create a drama focusing on the debilitating effects that concussions are having on our sports heroes, and the role that league owners play in allowing it to happen. His plan is to create a morality tale on that issue, much the way that Michael Mann’s The Insider took on the tobacco industry’s complicity in covering up the addictive and cancer-causing effects of cigarette smoking.”The topical drama is just in its formative stages but it already sounds like awards show material. If it does turn out to be Scott’s next movie, it would seem that potential sequels to Blade Runner and Prometheus may have to wait.Scott recently wrapped shooting on the pilot episode of the new Showtime drama The Vatican, which doesn’t yet have a premiere date. His latest film, The Counselor, is in theaters now.Via Deadline Hollywood

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