Scott & Zaillian Take Up The Day Britain Stopped

Director Ridley Scott and writer Steve Zaillian have acquired feature film rights to the British pseudo-documentary "The Day Britain Stopped" says The Hollywood Reporter.

Gabriel Range's original BBC Two program centered on a fictional disaster, in which a train strike is the first in a chain of events that led to a meltdown of the country’s transportation system.

This new version will be "inspired" by the original rather than being an out and out remake, and the scale will be much bigger - involving a "manmade disaster igniting a global catastophe".

The search for a script writer is underway.