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Ridley Scott reveals why Nick Cave’s ‘Gladiator’ sequel never got made
Ridley Scott has revealed why Nick Cave‘s proposed Gladiator sequel never came to fruition.Following the financial and critical success of the 2000 original – it won five Oscars, including best picture and best actor for Russell Crowe – both its lead star and director were keen to make a follow-up.John Logan, one of the screenwriters of Gladiator, was originally commissioned to write a sequel, which would be set in Ancient Rome but not feature Crowe, due to his character Maximus Decimus Meridius dying at the end of the first film.Wanting to star in the sequel himself, Crowe instead turned to the theatrical singer-songwriter Cave to pen a script and find a credible way to weave Maximus back into the story.Cave’s unconventional plot saw Maximus come face-to-face with the Roman gods in the afterlife, before being thrown back into the mortal world and then time travelling across the centuries to partake in different historical battles.According to Cave, Crowe wasn’t exactly keen on the idea, simply telling him: “Don’t like it, mate.”Now, in a new interview with The New York Times, Scott has offered further explanation as to why the film never went ahead.“It got too grand. Nick is very high theatre, and Steven Spielberg [who was consulted on the original film] said, ‘Nah’.
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See Robert Plant star in new ad for luxury high-speed Italian trainline
Robert Plant has starred in an advert for a high-speed Italian trainline.The new ad, which you can watch below, was filmed for Italy’s Trenitalia rail service and its Frecciarossa high-speed trains.It features clips of the singer at a terminal in Rome, travelling on a train, and performing with his acoustic band, Saving Grace – whose cover of Low‘s ‘Everybody’s Song’ soundtracks the ad.The solo artist and former Led Zeppelin frontman is also seen having coffee with Saving Grace vocalist Suzy Dian at the first-class Freccia Lounge, and chatting to her in another moment while travelling in one of Frecciarossa’s Executive Class train cars.Earlier this year, Plant and Dian completed a UK headline tour, and performed as part of this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust concert series at London’s Royal Albert Hall in March.Following the UK dates, Plant and Alison Krauss set off on a North American tour that wrapped in September, having last toured together in 2022, which itself was their first complete tour in 12 years.In June, they shared a new version of Led Zeppelin‘s classic track ‘When The Levee Breaks’, the duo’s first single since their second collaborative album ‘Raise The Roof’ was released in 2021.The latest version, which the pair had been performing on the North American tour, featured guitarist JD McPherson, drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, string player Stuart Duncan and multi-instrumentalist Viktor Krauss.Elsewhere on the tour, the pair also performed Zeppelin classics ‘The Battle Of Evermore’ and ‘Rock And Roll’, as well as a medley that includes ‘Gallows Pole’.In other Led Zeppelin news, it was recently revealed that their long awaited documentary Becoming Led Zeppelin is finally set for a cinema

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