‘Gladiator II’ Review: Paul Mescal And Denzel Washington Power Ridley Scott’s Long Awaited Sequel To His Only Best Picture Oscar Winner
deadline.comSir Ridley Scott didn’t make his first feature film (1977’s The Duellists) when he was already 40 years old. The director, turning 87 at the end of this month, has not wasted any time making up for that late start with a remarkable array of landmark films including Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma And Louise, The Martian, Black Hawk Down and on and on.
Coming off the massive Napoleon he jumped right into another epic project with a sequel 24 years after 2000’s Gladiator became his only Best Picture Oscar winner to date (however he lost Best Director to the double nominated Steven Soderbergh that year).
Scott has generally resisted going the sequel route to his films with his 2012 Prometheus and 2017 Alien: Covenant proving the exception, although those two films completing his so-called Alien trilogy came respectively 33 years and 28 years after his much imitated 1979 hit, Alien.
In between he left it to others including James Cameron to take on the mantle on that one before considering revisiting that particular world.
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