‘Gladiator II’: Read The Screenplay For The Epic That Makes It A Threequel For Ridley Scott And David Scarpa
deadline.comDeadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind this awards season’s buzziest films continues with Gladiator II, Ridley Scott‘s follow-up to his 2001 Best Picture Oscar winner.
The sequel, which gets viewers back to ancient Rome with a loaded cast that includes Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington and Connie Nielsen, just passed $100 million in domestic box office as it contributed to this past weekend’s lucrative Thanksgiving frame, growing its global gross to $320 million after two weeks in theaters.
Screenwriter David Scarpa reteamed with Scott on Gladiator II after Scarpa wrote and Scott directed 2023’s epic Napoleon (which starred Joaquin Phoenix, Oscar-nominated for playing Commodus in the original Gladiator).
Scarpa and Scott previously teamed for Scott’s Getty kidnapping true-crime drama All the Money in the World in 2017. The idea for a Gladiator sequel had been mulled since the success of the original, which was penned by the trio of David Franzoni (a producer on the new movie), John Logan and William Nicholson, earning them an Original Screenplay Oscar nomination.
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