Ridley Scott premiered The Dog Stars in Leicester Square, with Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin and Margaret Qualley from his post-apocalyptic thriller on the carpet.
Ridley Scott, the director of Alien and Gladiator, gave The Dog Stars its world premiere at the Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in the West End on Thursday 20 August 2026. Jacob Elordi, Josh Brolin and Margaret Qualley joined him.
Scott was born in South Shields in 1937 and studied at West Hartlepool College of Art and the Royal College of Art. He joined the BBC as a set designer, then left to found a commercials company.
His 1973 Hovis advertisement is still among the best known ever made in Britain. His first feature, The Duellists, won the prize for best first work at Cannes in 1977, and he was knighted in 2003.
The film adapts Peter Heller’s 2012 novel. Years after a flu pandemic has emptied the world, the pilot Hig, played by Elordi, keeps a homestead in Colorado with the survivalist Bangley, played by Brolin.
Born in Brisbane in 1997, Elordi was cast in The Kissing Booth at twenty, then made his name in Euphoria and as Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla.
Guy Pearce and Benedict Wong also walked the carpet. Six days later, 20th Century Studios opened the film in British cinemas.