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This sci-fi's top secret
Sworn to secrecy: Actor Idris Elba will star in Ridley Scott's latest film, in which the script has been a closely guarded secret
Sworn to secrecy: Actor Idris Elba will star in Ridley Scott's latest film, in which the script has been a closely guarded secret
Ridley Scott told me he has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep the script of his new epic science fiction film from leaking out.
His ensemble cast, which includes Oscar- winning Charlize Theron and hot actors Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Idris Elba, Sean Harris and Kate Dickie, not only had to sign secrecy clauses, but were only allowed to read the story if they visited Ridley's production office. (One exception was made, when a security courier flew to an actor's foreign location and stood guard for two hours while the screenplay was perused.)
'I was insistent that the script not leak onto the internet, where it gets dissected out of context, which spoils it for everyone,' Ridley told me during cocktails at a pre-Oscar tribute to Harvey Weinstein, hosted by Dior at the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard.
The film's called Prometheus and starts filming in three weeks. The director behind Alien, Gladiator, Thelma And Louise and Black Rain did, however, confirm that it is a science fiction thriller.
'It's the story of creation, the gods and the man who stood against them. It's not a small film,' Ridley joked.
'I'm using the giant James Bond 007 stage at Pinewood and six other sound stages to film it,' he added.
Prometheus, Ridley declared, was not — as some have suggested — a prequel to his classic sci-fi shocker Alien. But he refused to divulge more.
Indeed, one of his actors told me that he could recite the entire screenplay to me — but then he'd have to wrestle me to the ground and, this was related in the nicest possible way, 'kill me'.
Fassbender will arrive on set direct from filming Shame in New York for director Steve McQueen, who made the fantastic drama Hunger.
Rapace created the part of Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and its sequels.
Kate Dickie was stunning in Andrea Arnold's movie Red Road, and Sean Harris has emerged as an ace character actor after stonking roles in the Channel 4 adaptation of David Peace's Red Riding crime stories and Rowan Joffe's recent Brighton Rock picture.