{"id":51871,"date":"2023-02-04T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=51871"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T11:01:47","slug":"gladiator-sequel-set-for-november-2024-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2023\/02\/04\/gladiator-sequel-set-for-november-2024-release\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gladiator&#8217; sequel set for November 2024 release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The long-awaited sequel to&nbsp;<em>Gladiator&nbsp;<\/em>has set a release date as the yet-untitled film will land in theatres on November 22, 2024, Paramount Pictures announced Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>Aftersun&nbsp;<\/em>Oscar nominee Paul Mescal is reportedly in negotiations to play the lead role in director Ridley Scott\u2019s follow-up to 2000 release&nbsp;<em>Gladiator.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The yet-to-be-titled sequel will be produced by Scott, Michael Pruss, and Doug Wick of Red Wagon Entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the early reports, the Normal People famed actor will not be replacing Russell Crowe\u2019s Maximus Decimus Meridius from the first film, who died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mescal will play Lucius, the son of Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), who now is a grown man as the story takes place years after the first film ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucius also was the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), the son of Roman leader Marcus Aurelius, who murdered his father seized the throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott, who directed the 2000 movie and is expected to take the director\u2019s chair for the sequel as he has been envisioning the follow up for years now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m already having [the next] \u2018<em>Gladiator<\/em>\u2019 written now,\u201d Scott told&nbsp;<em>Empire&nbsp;<\/em>magazine in 2021. \u201cSo when I\u2019ve done \u2018<em>Napoleon<\/em>\u2019, \u2018<em>Gladiator<\/em>\u2019 will be ready to go.\u201d<br><br>Geo News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-awaited sequel to&nbsp;Gladiator&nbsp;has set a release date as the yet-untitled film will land in theatres on November 22, 2024, Paramount Pictures announced Friday. The&nbsp;Aftersun&nbsp;Oscar nominee Paul Mescal is reportedly in negotiations to play the lead role in director Ridley Scott\u2019s follow-up to 2000 release&nbsp;Gladiator. The yet-to-be-titled sequel will be produced by Scott, Michael Pruss, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51874,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-entertainment","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51875,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51871\/revisions\/51875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}