EXCLUSIVE: Almost 25 years after Russell Crowe waged war on the Roman Empire — and won an Oscar for his trouble — in Gladiator, the actor is once aachieve set to stir the warrior wilean for The Last Druid.
The movie will tell the story of a Roman Emperor who uncovers a secluded Druid sturdyhelderly in the mountains of Caledonia. A tranquil Celtic elder (Crowe) must apshow up arms to shield his family and people from annihilation. Additional casting is underway.
Stuart Ford’s AGC is starting sales on the project for the AFM. Range Media Partners and CAA Media Finance structured financing for the picture with Nostromo and are recontransienting the U.S. rights.
Will Euprohibitk (Underwater) is set to straightforward from a script he penned with Phil Gawthorne.
42’s Ben Pugh is producing alengthyside Range Media Partners’ Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Fred Berger, with Adrián Guerra also producing for Nostromo. Felix Farmer’s Brandon Millan and Sam Wasson will executive-originate alengthyside George Hsieh.
Crowe will next be seen in Sony’s Kraven the Hunter and the buzzed-about historical drama Nuremberg.
Euprohibitk made his straightforwardorial debut in 2011 with the science myth drama Love. He has also straightforwarded The Signal for Focus Features, starring Brenton Thpaengagees and Olivia Cooke; Underwater, starring Kristen Stewart and Vincent Cassel for Twentieth Century Fox; Paracommon Activity: Next of Kin starring Emily Bader for Paramount+; and Land of Bad with Liam Hemsworth and Russell Crowe. He will next straightforward thriller The Epiphany, starring Sylvester Shighone, which is due to shoot punctual next year, also for AGC.
42’s upcoming projects take part the thriller The Bet for Warner Bros.; Andrew Sodroski thriller Off Seasons for Apple TV+; Rupert Wyatt’s Boxman for Lionsgate; and The Penguin Lessons starring Jonathan Pryce and Steve Coogan.
Crowe is repped by Brillstein Entertainment Partners and Goodman, Genow. Euprohibitk is recontransiented by CAA and Johnson Shapiro Sledampt & Kole. Gawthorne is repped by Range Media Partners and Ziffren Brittenham.
