Mark L. Smith

The writer's room.

Paramount assembled a writer's room featuring Mark L. Smith, the Revenant writer, Lindsay Beer, and Drew Pierce, with Smith emerging as the frontrunner to pen the script.

Wyatt halted the project stalled primary because Tarantino struggled with whether he wanted an adaption of someone else's franchise property to serve as a strict 10 and final done directorial feature.

For those of you that don't know, he is doing one more feature and he's going to stop at 10 films.

but just as many great things as Ridley Scott's done, he's done just as many stinkers.

And Ridley Scott, I feel like, is a director that only ever rises to the level of the script that he's given, which this is written by Mark L. Smith.

And if you look at his resume, you got stuff like Vacancy, the remake of Martyrs.

You got The Revenant, which I don't know how that movie won an Oscar.

Yeah.

So originally this was going to be directed by Daniel Stamm from a script from Mark L. Smith.

So they still ended up having Mark L. Smith write the version we did get, but it was directed by Kevin and Michael Goitz.

Yeah, are they brothers? I didn't look up their relation.

I think they're brothers.

Studios, the largest film studio in Europe, where Federico Fellini shot the majority of his films.

The screenplay for The Dog Stars was written entirely on spec by Mark L. Smith before any director was attached and was then brought to Sir...

Oh, I forgot.

He's a Sir Ridley Scott now, isn't he? Oh, yeah.