Too bad they won’t be using Nick Cave’s script.
How do you have a sequel to a movie that ends with the hero saving the world but then dying?
Do you want me to spoil Moonfall for you?
Dooo eeet.
I don’t know that I’d use Moonfall as an example for anything that involves a sequel actually getting made!
You just put it in an opening crawl.
EPISODE II THE RISE OF PERTINAX
The dead speak! The EMPIRE has heard a mysterious message, a threat of REVENGE in the sinister voice of the late GENERAL MAXIMUS.
I’m pretty sure that Nick Cave script is actually a stolen Ubisoft outline for an unreleased game.
All I’m saying there is no reason an alien super AI can’t reconstitute Maximus in a virtual environment and make him fight other dead warriors for the rest of eternity.
The Gladiator/Virtuosity crossover we never knew we needed!
So will the entire original cast be back ? This one will take place in Elysium like they mentioned in the first movie I assume.
Have you seen Russell Crowe lately? The last 20 years have not been kind. Sure, digital de-aging tech has advanced, but I fear this would be too much to ask.
Movie’s Gladiator, not Maximus, have some other dude be the hero, a never ending line of sport stars rising, becoming big deals, saving the Roman Empire and it never sticking.
Very last movie, the hero is a Football player (US kind), that was previously in the Marines and I dunno, runs for President at the very end.
Just call it Spartacus 2.
Intrigued but also confused…as the Gladiator ending was somewhat final…
The Gladiator comes not to destroy Rome, but to save it!
Ridley Scott is 85 years old. Retire already! You’ve earned it.
Well, Paul Mescal is now an Oscar-nominated actor.
And we add Denzel
Oh boy.
With accidents on the set, complaints about animal abuse and now reports that the production went wildly over budget, sources tell Rambling Reporter that Ridley Scott’s long-anticipated Gladiator sequel is leaving Paramount execs feeling a bit like Joaquin Phoenix’s Emperor Commodus — “terribly vexed.” Initially budgeted at $165 million, sources say that figure has ballooned to something closer to $310 million. (Paramount insiders insist the net cost of the 49-day shoot was under $250 million.) “It’s a runaway,” says one source. “It’s not being managed.”
The strikes account for some of that money; the shutdowns starting in July reportedly cost $600,000 a week, or a total of about $10 million, until Scott resumed shooting in December (though there were reports he kept cameras rolling during the work stoppages, shooting extras at crowd scenes in Malta, where he built a Coliseum set). But even before the walkouts, Fortuna clearly frowned on this sequel, which stars Paul Mescal as a grown-up Lucius, the young royal in the original who worshiped Russell Crowe’s Maximus. A stunt gone wrong in June sent four crewmembers to the hospital with non-life-threatening burn injuries.