Fresh off the news that the filmmaker is teaming with Hugh Jackman for a Treasure Island adaptation, 20th Century Studios has released a second trailer and a new poster for Ridley Scott’s post-apocalyptic survival thriller The Dog Stars.
Based on Peter Heller’s acclaimed 2012 novel of the same name, the film stars Jacob Elordi as Hig, a widowed pilot trying to survive a post-apocalyptic world and fend off the vicious scavengers known as the Reapers from the abandoned hangar he now calls home with his dog Jasper and an eccentric ex-Marine Bangley (Josh Brolin), until he receives a radio transmission which gives him hope for a better life.
Joining Elordi and Brolin in the cast are Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, Benedict Wong and Allison Janney. Watch the trailer below…
“The film follows Hig, a pilot who survived the flu but lost his wife. He lives in an abandoned hangar with his dog and an eccentric ex-Marine, fending off roaming scavengers known as Reapers. When a mysterious radio transmission breaks through, Hig begins to imagine that something better might still exist beyond the life he has carved out.”
The Dog Stars arrives in cinemas on August 28th.
