Washington, Feb. 4 -- : Filmmaker Ridley Scott's follow-up to 'Gladiator', for which Oscar nominee Paul Mescal is in negotiations to star, will be released in November next year.
According to Variety, an American media company, Paramount Pictures has announced that the sequel is set to come out on November 22, 2024.
It will be produced by Scott, his Scott Free Productions president Michael Pruss, Red Wagon Entertainment's Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher David Scarpa will write the script.
The first 'Gladiator', released in 2000, starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman soldier taken into slavery who pledges vengeance on Commodus, played by Joaquin Phoenix.
As Maximus died at the end of 'Gladiator', Mescal will portray Lucius...