Gladiator sequel could actually happen - Ridley Scott
Apparently the 79-year-old filmmaker has worked out a way of bringing back Crowe’s eponymous sword-wielding alter-ego Maximus Decimus Meridius.
We’re kind of hoping time travel is involved so he comes to live in the 21st century and works as a bus driver. And we hope it’s a rom-com.
Ridley told Entertainment Weekly: ‘I know how to bring him back. I was having this talk with the studio — “But he’s dead.” But there is a way of bringing him back.’
Asked if this sequel is a dead cert, he added: ‘Whether it will happen I don’t know. Gladiator was 2000, so Russell’s changed a little bit. He’s doing something right now but I’m trying to get him back down here.’
Russell Crowe is now 52-years-old but there’s been no let-up in the number of roles he’s bagged lately.
He starred in The Nice Guys with Ryan Gosling (now starring in the sequel to Ridley’s Blade Runner) last year, and now he’s filming Alex Kurtzman’s The Mummy with Tom Cruise and Sofia Boutella.
Ridley Scott, meanwhile, is promoting the arrival of his latest Alien spin-off movie Alien: Covenant, which is due out on May 12.
Writer: Olivia Waring for Metro.co.uk
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