Hannah Hunt

Published Oct 20, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT

Hannah covers horror, sci-fi, and games at Collider, where she writes news and features, reviews new releases, and interviews the people who make them. She’s helping build out Collider’s gaming coverage, with Pokémon as one of her specialties. If she isn’t writing about a monster, she’s probably watching one on a tape from her VHS collection.

A mysterious radio transmission is a dangerous thing to follow when most of the world has already disappeared, but it gives Jacob Elordi something worth leaving home for in The Dog Stars. The actor leads Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s bestselling novel as Hig, a pilot whose life after a devastating pandemic has become a matter of maintaining the small corner of the world he can still control. Sharing that existence with Josh Brolin’s military survivalist Bangley keeps him alive, though the arrangement leaves precious little room for anyone else.

Scott’s movie puts that uneasy partnership against sprawling landscapes, with Margaret Qualley, Guy Pearce, Allison Janney, and Benedict Wong rounding out the ensemble. Hig’s decision to investigate the transmission takes him beyond the relative security of his homestead and into a world where encountering another person offers no guarantee of safety. For a pilot willing to believe there is still something out there worth finding, however, staying put comes with a cost of its own.

Collider can exclusively share a sneak peek featurette taking viewers onto the set of The Dog Stars, ahead of its October 27 digital release. The footage shows Scott working with the movie’s antagonists before moving into the nighttime action, alternating between scenes from the movie and a look at the crew bringing them together. Fire, close-quarters violence, and a substantial explosion all feature in the preview, which makes a convincing case that Hig has plenty of reasons to be cautious about meeting his neighbors. The featurette also pairs an explosion as it appears in the movie with a wider view of the blast being staged, giving viewers a chance to see the work behind the destruction.

Four of the largest communities on the planet, and four completely different reasons to belong to one. Here is yours, what it would give you, and the argument you would be having within a week.

You belong to the fandom that is really about comfort. Hogwarts works on people because it is a place rather than a plot, and the pull is not the wizard war so much as the corridors, the food, the weather and the sense that somebody is expecting

You belong to the deepest fandom on this list, the one where somebody has always read further than you and is quietly delighted to say so. Middle-earth rewards patience more than any other world in popular culture.

You belong to the loudest and largest tent of the four, the one where three generations are all watching the same thing and none of them agree about any of it. That disagreement is not a flaw in this fandom, it is the main activity.

You belong to the thinking fandom, the one that turns up for the argument rather than the explosion. Trek has always been a series of ethical problems in space, and the people who love it love being asked what they would have done.

For viewers interested in spending more time with Hig and the people he encounters, the home release includes seven deleted scenes. Those selections are titled “Jasper’s Funeral,” “Hig Mourns,” “Welcome Dinner,” “Roaches’ Warning,” “Hig & Cima,” “A Conversation With Pops,” and “Airport Alternate Exit.” Between scenes focused on individual relationships and an alternate departure, the lineup offers several reasons to revisit the story after the credits. The additional material also includes “The Making of The Dog Stars,” which takes viewers behind the scenes of the adaptation. Bonus feature availability will vary by product and retailer, so collectors should check the details of their preferred edition. The 4K release will present the movie with High Dynamic Range, offering another way to take in the landscapes surrounding Hig’s journey.

The Dog Stars arrives on digital platforms on October 27, followed by 4K Ultra HD and DVD on December 1.

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Ridley Scott

Jacob Elordi

Margaret Qualley

Josh Brolin

Guy Pearce