Paul Mescal will play the lead and Barry Keoghan will play the villain in Gladiator 2. Now, a movie legend joins the cast of the long-awaited sequel.
The legend of the coliseum returns. After 23 years, Gladiator is back on the big screen with the man who started it all, Ridley Scott. The filmmaker returns to the sets in a big way with the sequel to his greatest success and for everything to go well he has been in charge of gathering a luxury cast. Paul Mescal, recently nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor at just 27 years old, will star.
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The protagonist will give life to Lucius, the son of Lucilla and Maximus, a character who had Russell Crowe in the first installment. After his death, many things changed in the society led by Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix).
In this way, decades later, Lucius will emerge as a new hero and from what has been said again the great rival will be the bureaucracy. The latest reports revealed details about the sequel’s villain. Barry Keoghan, who was recently confirmed in the cast, will play the evil Emperor Geta, according to advances The Hollywood Reporter.
The young Irishman has also just been nominated for an Academy Award for his work done on The lost souls of Inisherin.
The big new signing
Not so long, until then, everything is calm. The big news has to do with another signing in the casting, one that was not on the radar. It has to do, nothing more and nothing less, than with Denzel Washingtonwho is considered by many to be the best actor in history.
He is the most awarded male African-American star of all time. She has a EGO (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony). She starred in Macbeth on Broadway, won her first Oscar with Gloria in 1990, and then in 2002 for Training Day. Not content with that, he has been nominated for the grand award 10 times, making him one of the most named at the ceremony.
Continuing with his experience, he directed Fences to have been on the shortlist for four categories at the Dolby. Viola Davis, her co-star, was the only one who won with the tape.
Although it is not known the role that Denzel Washington will have in Gladiator 2, it is most likely that he will be a great mentor for one of the protagonists. There are still many doubts to be resolved around the film that would hit theaters on November 22, 2024.
Likewise, much of the technical team. Although it is the faces of the stars that are seen on the screen, hundreds of experienced professionals will also be behind the project led by Scott. The filmmaker will also produce Gladiator 2 with the president of Scott Free, Michael Pruss; Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher through Red Wagon Entertainment will also produce. David Scarpa (The Last Castle, All the Money in the World) wrote the screenplay. Costume designer Janty Yates and production designer Arthur Max will reprise their production roles from the original.
Fuente: Deadline
