The Dog Stars (2026) — "Here it's just us trying to hold on to what was."

Ridley Scott has spent nearly fifty years imagining how the world ends, and The Dog Stars is his look at what comes after. Adapted from Peter Heller's novel, it follows Jacob Elordi's Hig, a pilot who, after a flu pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, holds the line at a small, isolated community alongside Josh Brolin's hard-edged Bangley. When a stray radio signal pulls Hig past the edge of his map, he finds Margaret Qualley's Cima and her father, played by Guy Pearce, and has to decide whether surviving is the same thing as living.

Dr. David D. Perlmutter joins Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, to talk Ridley Scott, Peter Heller, post-apocalyptic cinema, and so much more.

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