Will Paul Mescal reject the costume? Less than a year after the launch of Gladiator IIIn November 2024, Ridley Scott already spoke. In a recent interview with The Guardian, the filmmaker officially confirmed that a Gladiator III In fact, he launched, stating that the project was “in development.”
The 87 -year -old British director had already drawn an extension of the saga, as soon as the second part is thrown. “Given the actions in the rest of the world since yesterday, there will certainly be a gladiator III (…). Because it becomes so financial, it would be crazy not to consider a third version,” he said during the first in the United States.
Gladiator IIThrowed in November 2024 with Paul Mescal in the main role, he had brought $ 460 million at the world box office.
A legendary inheritance to perpetuate
The first GladiatorReleased in 2000, he had already marked the spirits and rescued the Hollywood coffers. Taken by a Russell Crowe at the top of his art in the role of Maximus, the film had brought more than $ 460 million worldwide for a budget of $ 103 million. This commercial success was accompanied by a critical consecration: five Oscar won in 2001, including those of the best film and the best actor for Crowe.
A quarter of a century later, Gladiator II He had been able to register in this inheritance, without the same as the masterpiece of the first Roman epic. With Paul Mescal, taking control of the torch at the place of Lucius, the commodic nephew, the continuation had almost achieved the same actions as his predecessor. In France alone, the film had attracted more than 2 million viewers.
Source: BFM TV
