Gladiator II remains to be two months away from enjoying in theaters, however director Ridley Scott already has his sights set on a 3rd movie.
Scott, 86, instructed The Hollywood Reporter that he would “moderately get on to Gladiator III,” when the outlet requested him about his subsequent venture following the upcoming sequel’s launch on Nov. 22.
“There’s already an concept,” Scott stated, noting that his idea for a 3rd Gladiator film takes inspiration from Francis Ford Coppola‘s 1974 epic The Godfather Half II.
Scott, whose second Gladiator movie comes 24 years after Russell Crowe led the franchise’s preliminary entry, equally invoked The Godfather Half II whereas teasing a 3rd movie to the French outlet Premiere.
“I am already toying with the thought of Gladiator III,” he instructed that outlet. “No, significantly! I’ve lit the fuse,” he stated, hinting that Gladiator II’s ending “is harking back to” the tip of Coppola’s 1972 unique Godfather movie, with Al Pacino’s Michael Corleone unhappily main his household’s felony empire into the longer term.
“So the following [film] will likely be a few man who does not need to be the place he’s,” Scott instructed Premiere of the idea.
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Gladiator II stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, the nephew of Crowe’s character Maximus from the unique film. (Spencer Deal with Clark performed the character as a toddler within the 2000 unique.) Trailers for the upcoming historic motion movie present that Lucius has made his method into preventing competitions as an grownup. The film additionally costars Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen, the latter of whom reprises her function as Lucius’ mom Lucilla.
“Years after witnessing the loss of life of the revered hero Maximus by the hands of his uncle, Lucius is compelled to enter the Colosseum after his house is conquered by the tyrannical Emperors who now lead Rome with an iron fist,” an official synopsis for the film reads. “With rage in his coronary heart and the way forward for the Empire at stake, Lucius should look to his previous to seek out energy and honor to return the glory of Rome to its individuals.”
Mescal, 28, instructed Premiere that Scott solely lately knowledgeable him of his want to make a 3rd Gladiator movie. Whereas he stated he is , he famous, “we will not rush something.”
Scott himself lately gave PEOPLE some perception into what audiences can count on from Gladiator II at Alien: Romulus‘ premiere on Aug. 12.
“It is nearly as good as the primary one,” he stated. The unique Gladiator received 5 Academy Awards on the 73rd Oscars in 2001 and obtained 12 whole nominations at that 12 months’s ceremony. “I did not say higher. It is nearly as good.”
Gladiator II is in theaters Nov. 22.