When filming action scenes for the eagerly anticipated sequel, Gladiator 2 director Ridley Scott decided to go bigger than before because he understands the value of going big or going home.
In an interview for Empire’s September edition, Scott, 86, said, “We begin the film with probably the biggest action sequence I’ve ever done.” He went on to say that the sequences were “probably bigger than anything in Napoleon.”
With credits from action-packed films like Blade Runner 2049, Alien: Covenant, and Napoleon, fans of Gladiator may find Scott’s confession to be challenging.
Since 2003, when director Ridley Scott announced plans to make a sequel to the Oscar-winning Gladiator, fans have been eagerly awaiting the release of Gladiator 2. After being put on hold in 2006, the project was given the go-ahead 12 years later.
In the twenty years since Russell Crowe penned the famous statement “Are you not entertained?” in the role of Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, technology has advanced quickly. Scott is embracing these changes head-on. In fact, he’s utilizing the developments to create more sophisticated and imaginative action scenes than before.
He told the magazine, “You have to embrace computerization and artificial intelligence.” “I can use a computer to read every molecule and wrinkle on a rhino, and then I can cut it exactly like the body of a rhino, and it will be tailored to a skeleton shape on a thick piece of plastic.”
Thanks to this technology, Paul Mescal, the lead actor in the sequel, will compete against the previously described digital rhino.
Scott remarked, “I have this beast that can go 40 mph, whirl around, wag its head, and snarl! Imagine a two-ton rhino carrying a guy! It’s actually a lot of fun.
Joaquin Phoenix and Oliver Reed joined Crowe in the cast in the year 2000, but Mescal will play the lead in Gladiator 2, which also stars Pedro Pascal and Joseph Quinn. Mescal will portray Lucious, a former Roman heir who turns into a gladiator after the Roman Army under general Marcus Acacius (Pascal) invades his home while coemperors Geta (Quinn) and Caracalla (Fred Hechinger) are in power.
Mescal stated to the British newspaper The Times in January that he was worried about getting overly well-known from the job.
“I’m not sure what the distinction will be. The actor of Normal People, 28, remarked, “Maybe that’s naive.” Are you simply going to be stopped by more people on the street? If that’s the case, I would get quite depressed and hope it’s not true.
“I’ll have an answer next year, but I’ll be in a bad spot if [the film] impacts my life in that way,” he continued. I’d have to go on and perform in a ridiculous play that no one would watch.
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