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Ridley Scott is teasing the Bee Gees biopic he’s set to direct at Paramount, which has been delayed.
The Gladiator II director was set to begin filming already, however after the studio “changed the goalposts,” the filmmaker opted to work on one other movie as a substitute.
“The deal — the studio changed the goalposts,” Scott instructed GQ. “I said, ‘You can’t do that.’ They insisted. I said, ‘Well, I’m going to warn you, I will walk, because I will go on to the next movie.’ They didn’t believe me, and I did.”
He continued, “I was being asked to go too far, and I said, ‘No. Next!’ They didn’t like my deal. So I said, I’ll move on. I’m expensive, but I’m fucking good.”
Scott is set to begin filming The Dog Stars in April and expects to start filming the Bee Gees biopic, which is tentatively titled You Should Be Dancing, in September.
The filmmaker teased that the biopic will revolve round a “competition” among the many band members, saying, “I liked the working-class side of the Bee Gees. It’s all about competition with brothers…. And then they lose Andy — Andy OD’d at 30. … It’s more about the gift than the luck, right? It’s a fantastic story.”
Scott’s most up-to-date movie was Gladiator II, which opened in theaters in November 2024 and which he directed and produced. The movie starred Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Derek Jacobi, Connie Nielsen, and Denzel Washington.
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