Ridley Scott Will Take On The Western, Wraiths of the Broken Land

While Ridley Scott signing on to direct a movie doesn’t always mean he’ll actually end up behind the camera – he likes to have a lot of film in development, only some of which he ends up making – Variety reports that he’s set to helm Fox’s western, Wraiths of the Broken Land.

There is some reason to think he may well make it though, as the project will reteam him with The Martian writer Drew Goddard, based on the acclaimed novel by S. Craig Zahler. The book ‘is set in Mexico around 1900 with two sisters forced into prostitution at a gentlemen’s club. The sisters’ two brothers and their father attempt to rescue them through their outlaw gang which also includes a former slave, an Indian and a brutal gunman (or “wraith”) who is the tactical leader.’

Scott is directing Alien: Covenant at the moment, but Wraiths of the Broken Land will be in the mix after he’s finished with that movie.