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Weeks earlier than the discharge of Gladiator II, Ridley Scott has urged that he desires to make his Roman epic right into a trilogy.
Scott directed the unique Gladiator in 2000, and has returned for the brand new sequel starring Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington.
It stays to be seen whether or not this long-awaited follow-up will show a success with audiences. Nonetheless, Scott has mentioned that he has already “lit the fuse” for a 3rd entry.
“I’m already toying with the concept of Gladiator 3,” the Blade Runner filmmaker mentioned in an interview with French journal Premiere. “No, critically! I’ve lit the fuse…
“The ending of Gladiator II is harking back to The Godfather, with Michael Corleone discovering himself with a job he didn’t need, and questioning, ‘Now, Father, what do I do?’ So the following [film] can be a few man who doesn’t wish to be the place he’s.”
The unique Gladiator starred Russell Crowe as Maximus, a Roman common turned slave on an epic mission of revenge. As a result of Maximus was slain on the finish of the primary movie by his uncle Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), Crowe isn’t returning for the sequel.
Earlier this yr, Crowe dispelled rumours that his character was set to seem in a flashback, and admitted that he was “barely uncomfortable with the very fact they’re making one other” Gladiator film.
“As a result of, after all, I’m useless and I’ve no say in what will get finished,” he mentioned. “A few the issues I’ve heard [about the plot of the sequel], I’m like, ‘No, no, no, that’s not within the ethical journey of that exact character.’
“However I can’t say something, it’s not my place, I’m six ft beneath. So we’ll see what that’s like.”
Within the build-up to the brand new movie’s launch, Scott has teased a few of Gladiator II’s elaborate motion sequences, revealing that the movie will comprise “in all probability the largest motion sequence I’ve ever finished… in all probability larger than something in [2023 historical epic] Napoleon.”
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Scott revealed that the motion sequence in query will characteristic a CGI rhinocerous.
“Computerization and AI – you need to embrace it,” he mentioned. “I can have a pc learn each molecule and wrinkle on a rhino after which lower it on a thick piece of plastic, completely as a rhino’s physique, which is then tailor-made to a skeleton form.”
“I’ve this factor that may do 40 miles an hour, spin on the spot, wag its head and snarl. A two-ton rhino with a man on its again! I imply, it’s a number of enjoyable.”
Gladiator 2 can be launched in cinemas on 15 November 2024.
