Gladiator II will open with “probably the biggest action sequence” that Ridley Scott has ever made. Gladiator II opens in United States theaters in November 2024. The film, directed by Scott, stars Paul Mescal as Lucius Verus, Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius, and more. Speaking with Empire Magazine, Scott revealed that the opening scenes of … Read more
And that’s really just the tip of the iceberg. There are chariot-racing Spaniards (Pepe Barroso, Eneko Sargadoy, Goncalo Almeida), the wealthy patricians played by equally scheming Gabriella Pession & Rupert Penry-Jones, and effective supporting turns from Dmitri Leonidas as the most popular charioteer of the era and especially Joannes Johannesson (another “Game of Thrones” vet) … Read more
Paul Mescal hopes the same-day release of Gladiator II and Wicked becomes the next Barbenheimer phenomenon. Barbenheimer was a phenomenon. On paper, Barbie and Oppenheimer had little in common, but fans embraced the counter-programming and helped propel both movies to massive success, with Barbie taking in $1.4 billion and Oppenheimer grossing $976 million. With Gladiator … Read more
It may not have Russell Crowe, but Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II definitely still looks like a Gladiator movie. Ahead of the long-awaited sequel debuting its first trailer tomorrow, Paramount has shared a large batch of images from the film and they certainly match the style and flavor of Scott’s 2000 Oscar winner. Instead of Crowe, the sequel stars … Read more
Gladiator II star Joseph Quinn was amazed at the level of commitment and control that Ridley Scott had while making the sequel. Legendary filmmaker Ridley Scott turns 87 this November, the same month he releases his latest movie, Gladiator II. Only twice in his career has he ever gone four years without making a picture. … Read more
The first images of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II are here, and with them we finally have a better sense of what this long-in-development sequel is all about. Previously we didn’t know much more than the fact that the film focused on the adult version Lucilla’s son from the first film. Crowe’s Maximus died at the end of … Read more
Universal has bumped up the release date of Wicked, which will now open on the same day at Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. Universal has pushed up the release of Wicked, the highly anticipated adaptation of the acclaimed Broadway show. The film was originally slated to hit theaters on November 27th, but it will now be … Read more
Russell Crowe is “slightly uncomfortable” that Gladiator 2 is being made. The 60-year-old star played General Maximus in Sir Ridley Scott’s original historical epic and admits that it is disconcerting to see the story revisited with Paul Mescal in the lead role. Speaking on the Kyle Meredith With… podcast, Crowe said: “I’m slightly uncomfortable with the … Read more
Director Roland Emmerich posted the teaser art for Those About to Die, his first return to television in over a decade. Roland Emmerich is officially heading back to television, teasing his upcoming series Those About to Die. That sounds like it could have been the title of most of his works, but this time around … Read more
Gladiator 2 has been on Ridley Scott’s mind for a long time. But why make a sequel to a self-contained historical epic about a character who dies at the end of the first film? That’s the big question. Now some 20 years later, Scott is finally making the film. Production was already underway when the … Read more