Ridley Scott Says He’s Going To Do Gladiator 2 Soon

Few years ago, Ridley Scott has confirmed he’s developing a sequel to his Oscar-winning epic Gladiator which would focus on Lucius, the nephew of Joaquin Phoenix’s wicked Commodus from the original film. Peter Craig (from The city) had been asked to write the script, but that was all we knew at the time … and it’s also all we still know today, but Scott just revealed it in an interview with Empire (Going through Hollywood journalist) that the script is being written.

Scott says the plan is for Gladiator 2 be ‘ready to go’ when he’s done Musette, the Napoleon film he made with Jodie Comer and Joaquin Phoenix (yes, he’s slightly taller than Napoleon, we’ll save you the search), which probably means this will be his next movie. Considering that the new hobby that Scott acquired during the pandemic is “making movies really fast” (he has two coming out this year!), We might not even have to wait too long to find out. see how much ancient Rome has changed. over the past decades.

Either way, Scott is Gladiator 2 definitely be as completely wacky as the version that original star Russell Crowe hired Nick Cave to write. Crowe, whose character dies a lot in the original film, asked Cave to come up with a storyline that Crowe could still star in, which culminated in a fantasy epic where Crowe’s Maximus awakens in the afterlife and is forced to become an assassin for the gods in order to gain a second chance in life.

As this BBC story says, Maximus succeeds and is sent back to Earth to face even more drama between tyrannical Roman rulers and the people they kill for fun, leading to a battle between Rome and the early Christian rebels. However, as a punishment / reward for his life (s) of violence, Maximus would then be cursed to live for eternity, resulting in the deaths of soldiers in crusades, world wars and every other great battle in history. .

It would have been great, but it probably would have also been deeply silly. Russell Crowe has more to fear now anyway, such as the fact that young people don’t appreciate adult movies like Master and Commander or that 20th Century Fox decided to immediately undermine this argument by developing a version of Master and Commander it is precisely For the young.