Earlier today I pointed out an interview from Eclipse Magazine in which Ridley Scott tells us he has plans for a new sci-fi film returning him to the genre that he delved in spawning Alien and Blade Runner. Scott was quoted saying:

I am going to do one. I waited for a book for 20 years and I have got the book. I am not going to tell you what the book is but that film is going to probably be written within the next month. That will definitely be what I do next after Nottingham, the Robin Hood film that I am doing now in England.

Well, thanks to RopeofSilicon commenter 'BeautifulM' we are pointed to an article at Awards Daily in which they point out the book he won't mention may in fact be the Aldous Huxley novel "Brave New World."

The last time "Brave New World" was adapted back in 1998 for television with Peter Gallagher starring as Bernard Marx.

The site points out that this is in fact not the first time we have heard about this as AwardsDaily points out a March essay from the LA Times wrote:

[A] movie of "Brave New World" is in the works, produced by George DiCaprio and starring his son, Leonardo, directed by Ridley Scott with a screenplay by Andrew Nicholls.

The futuristic "Brave New World" presents a vision of a world transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring masterpiece.

Leonardo DiCaprio will star in Ridley Scott's upcoming feature A House of Lies (previously titled Body of Lies) set to hit theaters on October 10. Scott will then direct the Russell Crowe starrer mentioned in the quote above, Nottingham, in which Crowe stars as the Sheriff of Nottingham in a revisionist take on the Robin Hood tale, with Nottingham as a noble and brave lawman who labors for a corrupt king and engages in a love triangle with Maid Marion and Robin Hood.

What do you think about the task at hand? Are you excited to see Ridley Scott returning to sci-fi?