Waking up to the news that the writing/directing team behind one of your favorite movies is reteaming is always nice. Well, today it’s happened in a big way. Collider reports that  screenwriter David Webb Peoples (Unforgiven, Twelve Monkeys) will be penning a draft of Ridley Scott’s much awaited return to Sci-fi, The Forever War…and there was much rejoicing. The news appeared on the author of the novel, Joe Haldeman‘s Live Journal. Here’s a description of the story from Amazon.

…conflict between humanity and the alien Taurans. Humans first bumped heads with the Taurans when we began using collapsars to travel the stars. Although the collapsars provide nearly instantaneous travel across vast distances, the relativistic speeds associated with the process means that time passes slower for those aboard ship. For William Mandella, a physics student drafted as a soldier, that means more than 27 years will have passed between his first encounter with the Taurans and his homecoming, though he himself will have aged only a year. When Mandella finds that he can’t adjust to Earth after being gone so long from home, he reenlists, only to find himself shuttled endlessly from battle to battle as the centuries pass.

Sounds like Ridley Scott’s answer to Avatar and having Peoples on board can’t hurt at all. All in all this is exciting news.