The on-off Bee Gees movie You Should Be Dancing looks like it’s on again, with Ridley Scott lining it up after The Dog Stars.
Just your regular Ridley Scott update here. He’s completed the awards tour for Gladiator II, which turned into a solid hit before Christmas. He’s about to start shooting The Dog Stars, for which he’s assembling Paul Mescal and around 1000 extras. There’s an outside chance he’ll have that ready for Christmas as well. But by then, his delayed but apparently still happening Bee Gees biopic will be up and running.
It’s still called You Should Be Dancing, and a listing has now popped up at Production Weekly that points towards an October start date. It lists a shoot that’ll take place in London and Miama, with John Logan penning the script. Paramount Pictures was set to be backing the film, and presumably still will. But plans to get the film in front of the cameras at the start of this year were yanked when Ridley Scott suggested that Paramount had altered the proposed deal for the movie.
Wrinkles are set to be ironed out, it seems, and Scott’s output of a major film a year looks set to continue. No casting news for You Should Be Dancing was announced before it suddenly had the brakes applied, and presumably, if a further problem comes up, Scott’s got a bunch of other films that he’s working on. He’s already told us about a science fiction movie and a plan for Gladiator III, and honestly, who’d bet against him at this stage being able to get them off the ground?
A release date of 2026 is looking feasible, then, but as and when we get more concrete information, we’ll pass it your way. In the meantime, Ridley Scott has the small matter of another huge film to get finished by the autumn.
Best let him get on with it.
