Ridley Scott had confirmed it: there will be a sequel to the unforgettable Gladiator, his great show released in 2000. Currently busy with the production of Napoleon, his gigantic project devoted to the French emperor of the same name with Joaquin Phoenix in the role of the sovereign, the 85-year-old director has not forgotten his gladiator. 20 years after its release, the unforgettable Gladiator has not aged Maximus, to whom he had nevertheless killed after a duel against Commodus in the arena of the Colosseum, the project seems to have taken a completely different direction. According to information from Deadline, the young Irish actor Paul Mescal, the revelation of the BBC mini-series Normal People, is in talks to play the new hero of this sequel. the eponymous adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel, Paul Mescal presented two films this year at Cannes: God’s Creatures by New Yorkers Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis, and the little gem Aftersun by Charlotte Wells. In Cannes, the rise of Paul Mescal that we expectedHe should not embody another version of Maximus but Lucius, the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), grandson of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius and therefore nephew of the dreadful Commodus, played by Joaquin Phoenix. David Scarpa, already screenwriter of All the Money in the World and the future Napoleon by the same Ridley Scott, was chosen to write Gladiator 2. The first opus had collected 460 million dollars at the box office and no less than five Oscars for six appointments.
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