Ridley Scott adds a Gertrude Bell biopic to the list of projects he's going to do some day, he swears
The severe drought of news stories about Ridley Scott signing up to do things has left our nation cracked and sore, wondering if our parched plains would ever feel their moist, life-giving kiss again. But thanks to recent rain dances by a dedicated tribe of Quapaw who are also big Gladiator fans, we can lift our gourds and drink deep of the report that Scott plans to direct a biopic of Gertrude Bell, a female contemporary of T.E. Lawrence who similarly found her life’s calling in the desert as a traveler, spy, cartographer, diplomat, and other adventurous things while working in the Middle East, where she helped to establish the borders and governments of Iraq and Jordan. Clearly it would be a plum, likely Oscar-baiting role for a lucky actress, or Tom Hanks in Bosom Buddies drag.