After looting the box office this summer with “Gladiator,” helmer Ridley Scott is about to do the same thing on the high seas.
Daily Variety is reporting that the lauded director will direct Disney’s “Captain Kidd,” an adventure tale based on the life of the notorious 17th century pirate.
The project will be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and will be written by “Double Jeopardy” scribes Doug Cook and David Weisberg.
Scott has just finished wrapping “Hannibal,” the sequel to “The Silence of the Lambs,” and will immediately segue into the big-budget flick “Black Hawk Down.”
A SOUND ‘MIND:’ Ed Harris knows what’s hot. Variety says that the actor has aligned himself with red hot director Ron Howard and red hot actor Russell Crowe in the project “A Beautiful Mind.”
In the true story, “Gladiator” Crowe will play John Nash, a paranoid-schizophrenic and Nobel Prize winner. Harris will co-star as an intelligence officer in the film.
Howard, of course, just came off helming a little holiday film called “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas” with Jim Carrey.
ANOTHER GENERATION: “Star Trek” fans can rejoice. Variety says that “Gladiator” scribe John Logan has been tapped to write the next “Star Trek” flick in the sci-fi franchise. The project will be No. 10 for the big-screen series.
No director has been named yet, but veteran Trekkies Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner are set to return.
