2026 · Film · Science Fiction / Thriller / Adventure
The Dog Stars
At the end of the world, no one survives alone.
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.
- Directed by
- Ridley Scott
- Release
- August 26, 2026
- Runtime
- 119 minutes
- TMDB
- 6.6 / 10
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