David Scarpa ( The Day the Earth Stood Still) is penning the script. Who’s making it: Scott will direct the Paramount film and has been developing the film for many years, trying to figure out how to crack a sequel to his film, which ( spoiler to follow) killed off its two leads. Reports have suggested the film follows Lucius, the son of Connie Nielsen’s character Lucilla and the nephew of Commodus. What it’s about: A follow-up to Ridley Scott’s hit film that chronicled Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe), a former general who is forced into being a common gladiator under the rule of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), a patricidal self-appointed emperor of Rome.
Here are the three upcoming projects that likewise have “a dream that was Rome”:
The movies were mostly low-budget efforts, and many were produced in Italy and dubbed for American audiences just like the better-known Spaghetti Western genre. The films hit their popularity zenith in the early 1960s when - in the wake of the 1959 blockbuster Ben-Hur and Stanley Kubrick’s 1960 film Spartacus - nearly 40 films featuring gladiators were released between 1961-64, according to IMDb. The gladiator genre actually has cinema roots dating all the way back to the 1913 silent film The Last Days of Pompeii. How Gen Z Is Driving the Adoption of Generative AI in the U.K.
