By Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, Film EXCLUSIVE: Swords down! The Ridley Scott-directed 20th Century Studios period epic The Last Duel has been put on “indefinite hiatus,” days before shooting was to commence in Ireland.
Sources said the cast has been told all this, and it is unclear when production will begin on a film that had been slated for Christmas Day release by Disney with an international rollout January 8.
They hope to keep that date; Scott is jumping right into the editing room to assemble the one-hour-plus amount of the film he shot over 4 1/2 weeks.
This likely presages other moves from movie productions around the world that are being impacted by the global outbreak of COVID-19.
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