We told you earlier that Blade Runner director Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio are working together to adapt Aldus Huxley’s dystopian classic, Brave New World, for the big screen, with DiCaprio producing and possibly to star. Now Variety reports that screenwriter Farad Safinia, who also scripted Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto, is on board to write a first draft. Apocalypto is Farad Safinia's only major film credit to date. Brave New World has never been filmed for the big screen before, but was turned into a TV movie starring Leonard Nimoy and Peter Gallagher in 1998.
Ridley Scott is amazingly busy lately, so the timing of this film is anyone's guess. Scott has just finished filming Nottingham (starring Russell Crowe as Robin Hood) and is lined up to direct The Kind One with Casey Affleck, an Alien prequel, and Joe Haldman's The Forever War.
Scott previously worked with DiCaprio in the Middle East thriller, Body of Lies, and the two are also producing a thriller, The Low Dweller, for Relativity studios
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