The Dog Stars

About The Dog Stars

After the world's population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in a Colorado airplane hangar with his dog and a dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he’s flying his old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound.

Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars is a 2026 science fiction thriller film. The film is filed under joyful, loving, pilot, and death of wife.

Jacob Elordi takes the lead as Hig, Margaret Qualley as Cima, Josh Brolin as Bangley, and Guy Pearce as Pops. It runs 119 minutes and was released in August 2026.

The screenplay is by Mark L. Smith. It comes from 20th Century Studios, Scott Free Productions, and TSG Entertainment. The film began as a novel.

I Am Legend, The Mothman Prophecies, and Handling the Undead make useful companions to The Dog Stars, all filed under dystopia and pandemic. TMDB voters put it at 7.2 out of 10 across 943 votes and it carries a R rating.