Gladiator 2 won’t even be out but, and Ridley Scott may be getting fairly near his 90s, however he is already engaged on a script for a 3rd one.
After a 24 yr hole, the 2000 historic epic traditional Gladiator is lastly getting a sequel, with Ridley Scott nonetheless on the helm, a powerful factor contemplating the director is 86 (and he’ll be 87 subsequent month, too). That is fairly the await a sequel, particularly one so instantly related as it’s, but when Scott will get his approach you in all probability will not be ready so lengthy for the third one. Whereas a 3rd movie hasn’t formally been introduced in any capability, in a latest interview with Complete Movie (within the journal’s last problem, through GamesRadar) Scott shared that he is presently engaged on a script for it, even when he hasn’t written all that a lot of it but.
“I’ve already received eight pages,” Scott mentioned. “I’ve received the start of an excellent footprint.” There’s clearly not an excessive amount of there but, however the director does clearly have an concept as to the place he is going with it, saying, “If there’s a Gladiator 3, I don’t suppose you’d ever return into the sector. However I had to return into the sector…” What which means for the upcoming second movie, and this hypothetical third movie, is not clear, however I am certain all you die exhausting Gladiator followers (there needs to be a few of you, proper?) it’s going to be an attractive remark.
Scott additionally spoke in regards to the legacy of the unique Gladiator, saying, “The primary film actually positively touched the creativeness in a approach I didn’t fairly count on. As a result of after they heard that Ridley is doing a Roman epic – a sword-and-spear-and-sandal film – there was quite a lot of sniggering. As a result of as much as that date, they’d at all times been very, , old-style Hollywood. And I knew what to do.”
Gladiator 2 is out November 15 within the UK, November 22 within the US.