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Gladiator III within the works from Ridley Scott


It took Ridley Scott twenty years to return to the Roman Colosseum with Gladiator II, however he’s already plotting his third journey to Historic Rome.

“I’d slightly get on into Gladiator III,” Scott instructed The Hollywood Reporter Thursday when requested a couple of totally different potential subsequent venture for the 86-year-old filmmaker. “There’s already an thought.” He added that he’s taking inspiration from The Godfather Half II for the subsequent story.

The Gladiator 3 information first trickled out Friday after the French publication Premiere revealed related feedback from Scott.

Gladiator II opens Nov. 22 and arrives 20 years after Scott’s Gladiator, which received 5 Oscars, together with finest image and finest actor for Russell Crowe. Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen star within the new movie.

Scott stays probably the most prolific administrators working in Hollywood, a filmmaker who at instances launch two movies in a single yr. His subsequent movie is slated to be a Bee Gees biopic at Paramount that counts Gladiator scribe John Logan as a author, together with Joe Penhall. He expects to enter manufacturing subsequent yr in London and Miami.

In a little bit of irony, filmmaker Roland Emmerich lately stated that season two of his gladiator TV present These About to Die will take inspiration from Godfather II. Although Emmerich is within the 1974 traditional’s use flashbacks, whereas Scott is extra inquisitive about exploring related themes to that movie in Gladiator 3. Each Emmerich’s TV sequence and the primary Gladiator film used the identical supply materials — the Daniel P. Mannix’s novel These About to Die.

As for Gladiator II, Scott is feeling assured. “It’s probably much more extraordinary than the primary,” Scott stated in April at Cinemacon, the place he unveiled the primary footage.

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