Ridley Scott's The Dog Stars, a 2026 release, sets its story in a Colorado airplane hangar after a pandemic has wiped out most of the world's population.
What is The Dog Stars about?
The film follows a man building a quiet, guarded existence out of what's left — his dog, a battered old Cessna, and an uneasy alliance with a hardened gunman sharing his shelter. That fragile routine breaks when a radio transmission cuts through the silence, pulling him into the air in search of where the signal is coming from and whether anyone is still sending it. Rather than a straightforward survival thriller, The Dog Stars leans on isolation and the tension of not knowing what's out there, using the hunt for the transmission's source as the engine for a story more about endurance than action. At close to two hours, it gives Scott room to build atmosphere around a landscape emptied of nearly everyone in it.
About the cast
Jacob Elordi and Margaret Qualley lead a cast that also includes Josh Brolin, Guy Pearce, Allison Janney, Benedict Wong, Ewen Bremner, and James Craze. It's a deep bench for a story built around isolation, and the size of the ensemble suggests the film widens out from its solitary premise rather than staying confined to one character's perspective throughout. K-Time's credits follow the production's own billing order without assigning any specific role to a specific actor.
Context & significance
Ridley Scott has spent decades moving between science fiction, survival stories, and large-scale drama, and The Dog Stars sits closer to the survival end of that range — a pandemic-emptied world used as backdrop rather than a spectacle in itself. The 2026 release lands at a moment when post-pandemic fiction has become its own crowded genre, and a film built around a man, his dog, and a mystery signal is a quieter entry than most. For K-Time's audience, having a major English-language release available with Persian dub and subtitles means a title like this doesn't need to wait for a separate regional release before it's watchable in Farsi.
Watching The Dog Stars on K-Time
The Dog Stars is available on K-Time with both a Persian dub and Persian subtitles, so viewers can pick whichever suits them. A free account login is all that's required to start watching; the synopsis, cast details, and FAQ here stay readable without signing in first. Running 119 minutes, it's a full-length watch best set aside time for rather than split across a busy evening.