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Based on a book by Joe Haldeman, Ridley Scott‘s next project after he completes the long gestating Robin Hood film is going to be a science fiction flick called The Forever War. And while the project is still way off in the distance — possibly even getting into production after both Robin Hood and a Monopoly film — Scott did give an interesting quote about it to the UK’s Wharf blog after receiving his fellowship from the BFI (British Film Institute) last week.

When asked about upcoming projects, Scott explained: “I’m filming a book by Joe Haldeman called Forever War. I’ve got a good writer doing it. I’ve seen some of James Cameron’s work, and I’ve got to go 3D. It’s going to be phenomenal.” And even though we haven’t seen any of the footage from Cameron’s Avatar, we have heard that it is going to be phenomenal, indeed. And for Ridley Scott, a pioneer of science fiction whose work on films like Alien and Blade Runner helped usher in the era of sci-fi that brought us the likes of James Cameron’s Terminator and others, to say that he’s interested in taking Forever War to a third dimension is a relatively strong endorsement for the work that Cameron is doing with all of the new-fangled 3D tech.

Of course this is all very far off, it is taken from a little blurb and it could all end up being hornswaggle — and/or the film could end up in the dumpter over on the 20th Century Fox lot. But it’s an interesting topic upon which to speculate — especially as the debate over 3D continues to heat up, both with the animation studios churning out films such as Monsters vs. Aliens with gimmicky 3D aimed at kids and filmmakers like Cameron trying to bring it to a new live-action level. Plain and simple though, Ridley Scott making a futuristic sci-fi film about interstellar war between humanity and a race of Taurans, in 3D, sounds pretty rad. Now, if only someone can convince him to skip that Monopoly film and get to work on The Forever War, I think we’d all be in pretty good shape.

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