Ridley Scott plans to make a science fiction film, The Forever War. He last directed sci-fi classsics Blade Runner and Alien little over twenty-years ago. So, this is great news.

The Forever War will be adapted from Joe Haldeman’s 1974 novel of the same title. Scott’s intent was to direct The Forever War, two decades ago but rights complications delayed his plans according to Variety.

Scott told Variety that that book is a science-fiction epic, a bit of The Odyssey by way of Blade Runner, built upon a brilliant, disorienting premise. The story revolves around a soldier, who battles an enemy in deep space for only a few months, but returns home to a planet he doesn’t recognize some 20 years later.

The sci-fi story is quite a tale which you can peruse here.