Ridley Scott kept you waiting for Gladiator 2 for more than two decades, but it sounds like you won’t be waiting quite as long for the third one

Gladiator 2 may not even be out but, and Ridley Scott is perhaps getting fairly near his 90s, however he is already engaged on a script for a 3rd one.

After a 24 yr hole, the 2000 historic epic basic Gladiator is lastly getting a sequel, with Ridley Scott nonetheless on the helm, a powerful factor contemplating the director is 86 (and he’ll be 87 subsequent month, too). That is fairly the await a sequel, particularly one so straight related as it’s, but when Scott will get his manner you most likely will not be ready so lengthy for the third one. Whereas a 3rd movie hasn’t formally been introduced in any capability, in a latest interview with Complete Movie (within the journal’s ultimate difficulty, by way of GamesRadar) Scott shared that he is at the moment engaged on a script for it, even when he hasn’t written all that a lot of it but.

“I’ve already bought eight pages,” Scott stated. “I’ve bought the start of an excellent footprint.” There’s clearly not an excessive amount of there but, however the director does clearly have an thought as to the place he is going with it, saying, “If there’s a Gladiator 3, I don’t assume you’d ever return into the sector. However I had to return into the sector…” What meaning for the upcoming second movie, and this hypothetical third movie, is not clear, however I am positive all you die exhausting Gladiator followers (there needs to be a few of you, proper?) it will be an attractive remark.

Scott additionally spoke in regards to the legacy of the unique Gladiator, saying, “The primary film actually positively touched the creativeness in a manner I didn’t fairly count on. As a result of once they heard that Ridley is doing a Roman epic – a sword-and-spear-and-sandal film – there was lots of sniggering. As a result of as much as that date, they’d all the time been very, , old-style Hollywood. And I knew what to do.”

Gladiator 2 is out November 15 within the UK, November 22 within the US.