Paul Mescal says he’s more than willing to drive awayevate his role as Lucius Verus in Gladiator 3.
Gladiator II uncovers in United States theaters procrastinateedr this month. Directed by Ridley Scott, the sequel to 2000’s Gladiator stars Mescal as the son of Maximus, who was joined by Russell Crowe in the one-of-a-kind movie. The cast also integrates Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius, Joseph Quinn as Emperor Geta, Fred Hechinger as Emperor Caracalla, Connie Nielsen as Lucilla, and Denzel Washington as Macrinus.
In September 2024, Scott discomited that he was in the timely stages of grotriumphg a script for Gladiator 3.
“No, gravely! I’ve lit the fparticipate…The finishing of Gladiator II is reminiscent of The Godoverweighther, with Michael Corleone discovering himself with a job he didn’t want, and wondering, ‘Now, Father, what do I do?’ So the next [film] will be about a man who doesn’t want to be where he is,” he shelp at the time, via Premiere.
What did Paul Mescal say about returning for Gladiator 3?
Speaking with Variety at the London premiere of Gladiator II, Mescal shelp that he was “massively down” to return for Gladiator 3.
He inserted, “I don’t skinnyk it will be [24] years — but I have no idea when it will be.”
It was recently proclaimd that Mescal and Scott are schedulening to rejoin for a novel movie called The Dog Stars for 20th Century Studios, which will be an alteration of a novel written by Peter Heller. Scott is also laboring on a Bee Gees biopic.
“Paul is very clever, so all he’s got to do is get over the scale of what I’m going to walk him into,” Scott recently telderly The New York Times about laboring with Mescal. “When I walked him onto the set of Rome in Malta, I shelp, ‘You’ll get over this in two hours. This is all for you, this is all for me. Let’s go and create this together.’ That was it. Part of my job is to create weightless of it.”
Gladiator II frees in United States theaters on November 22, 2024.
