Ridley Scott has seemingly walked back his previous statement, suggesting he was walking away from the iconic sci-fi series.

The man who directed 1982’s Blade Runner would be the perfect candidate to adapt Peter Heller’s popular postapocalyptic novel The Dog Stars for the big screen.

"His dog had been a puppy to his wife. The wife, at that particular moment, already had her own problem because she was actually going down with cancer. So, the dog really was his connection and linke...