Ridley Scott Already Wants to Make ‘Gladiator 3’

Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II isn’t even out in theaters but and the 86-year-old director is already speaking about. making one other sequel to his Oscar-winning swords-and-sandals epic.

In a brand new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, when requested a few venture he was contemplating subsequent, Scott Replied “I’d somewhat get on into Gladiator III,” including that “there’s already an thought” for a second sequel — one he claimed was “taking inspiration” from The Godfather Half II.

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Gladiator got here out in 2000 — that means it took almost 1 / 4 of a century for Scott to efficiently mount a sequel. It will be fairly an achievement if he bought a 3rd one into manufacturing in a matter of months, as a substitute of many years.

The unique movie adopted a Roman common performed by Russell Crowe who’s betrayed after which captured by slave merchants, who pressure him to struggle as a gladiator. Within the sequel, Paul Mescal performs the son of the previous emperor’s daughter; from the appears of the trailer, he undergoes an analogous transformation from royalty to gladiatorial warrior.

If Scott did certainly direct a 3rd Gladiator that will tie Alien for probably the most movies he’s made in a single franchise. (Scott directed the unique Alien, then the prequel Prometheus and its sequel Alien: Covenant.) A handful of his different movies have gotten prequels or sequels (Blade Runner, Hannibal) however Scott didn’t direct them.

THR’s doesn’t specify what kind of inspiration Gladiator III might take from The Godfather Half II. That movie is notable for being each a sequel and a prequel; it continues the occasions of The Godfather, with Michael Corleone settling into his new position because the don of his crime household whereas there are occasional flashbacks to the story of his far, Vito, immigrating to America after which rising to energy within the early years of the twentieth century.

After I hear a sequel goes to be within the fashion of Godfather Half II, I assume it is going to mimic this construction; that it will likely be each prequel and sequel. A Gladiator on this mode could possibly be about each the continued journey of Mescal’s character, plus the story of how Crowe’s character rose via the Roman navy years earlier than. However I could possibly be mistaken.

Gladiator II is scheduled to open in theaters on November 15.