Gladiator 2: Ridley Scott edited 90 minutes of the film before the Hollywood strikes

More than twenty years after the release of the first film, Gladiator 2 is already leaving the drawing board and, according to information from the The New Yorkerthe editor has already edited around 90 minutes of material filmed in Morocco before the Hollywood shutdowns.

“He was getting ready to go back to recording Gladiator 2which stars Paul Mescalat the moment the strikes were resolved”stated the vehicle. “In the meantime, he’s been working on 90 minutes he already has, including a scene where the heroes fight a bunch of baboons.”

“He said he was driven by a video of baboons attacking tourists in Johannesburg [na África do Sul]: ‘Baboons are carnivores. Can you hang from the roof for two hours with your left leg? No! [Mas] a baboon can”continued the The New Yorker about what inspired the scene.

In addition to Mescal, this year’s Oscar nominee for Aftersun, the cast of Gladiator 2 still has Denzel Washington (Training Day), Joseph Quinn (Stranger Things), Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us), Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), May Calamawy (Moon Knight), Lior Raz (Squad 6), Peter Mensah (Spartacus) It is Matt Lucas (Maid of Honor Mission).

With script Peter Craig (Top Gun: Maverick), direction of Ridley Scott and scheduled to premiere on November 22, 2024, the film still has the returns of Connie Nielsen as Lucilla It is Derek Jacobi as Gracchus.