Ridley Scott Reteams With Gladiator Scribe For Vampire Adaptation The Passage

Ridley Scott Reteams With Gladiator Scribe For Vampire Adaptation The Passage

By Peter Sciretta/Sept. 15, 2009 5:58 pm EST

The story is described as “a futuristic fable” about death row inmates transformed into vampires by a government-spawned virus. According to Variety, “terminally ill patients become healthy after they are bitten by bats in South America, and the government conducts secret tests on human subjects to see if the virus can cure illness. The result is an apocalyptic unleashing of bloodthirsty vampire test subjects that include death row inmates.”

John Logan’s other films include The Last Samurai, Gladiator, Any Given Sunday, Sweeney Todd, The Aviator and the 1999 film Bats. Scott has a lot of projects in development. He is currently working on Robin Hood, producing The A-Team, and is in various stages of development on an Alien prequel, The Kind One, Factor X, and a dozen other optioned properties. So in other words, just because Scott is developing the property to direct, that might not actually happen when the time comes a few couple years from now.