It will be produced by Ridley Scott through his Scott Free Productions and will be co-produced by On The Corner by Asif Kapadia and James Gay-Rees.
The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Ridley Scott and Academy Award winning documentarian Asif Kapadia (Amy) are collaborating to adapt the best selling non-fiction book, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.
Ridley Scott adds, “For years Asif and I have been looking for a project to collaborate on” Scott also believes that Sapiens “has all the elements to be massively entertaining as well as historically important.”
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind was published in 2011 and has sold over 8 million copies.