EXCLUSIVE: Every interview Ridley Scott has done with Deadline has turned into a master class on his cinematic exercises in world creation, ranging from Alien, to Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Blackhawk Down,

“I’ve lit the fuse,” Scott said. “The ending of ‘Gladiator II’ is reminiscent of ‘The Godfather,’ with Michael Corleone finding himself with a job he didn’t want, and wondering, ‘Now, Father, what do I do?‘ So the next [film] will be about a man who doesn’t want to be where he is.”

The director speaks his mind on rejected sequel ideas, Joaquin Phoenix’s plan to quit the original and working with a “fractious” Denzel Washington.

Denzel Washington revealed that a same-sex kiss he filmed for Gladiator II was cut from the final movie.

From the first moment its trailers arrived on the internet, it was pretty clear that Denzel Washington wasn’t bothering with restraint when it came to his performance in Ridley Scott’s blood-on-sand sequel Gladiator II.

Gladiator II” may have taken over two decades to come to fruition, but star Paul Mescal is already thinking about a third installment of Ridley Scott’s epic. When asked by Variety at the film’s London premiere if he’d want to make “Gladiator 3,

Paul Mescal says he’s more than willing to reprise his role as Lucius Verus in Gladiator 3. Gladiator II opens in United States theaters later this month. Directed by Ridley Scott, the sequel to 2000’s Gladiator stars Mescal as the son of Maximus,

Despite his relatively short career, Paul Mescal has already received a number of accolades. Over the last few years Paul Mescal has went from a relatively unknown theatre actor to the star of a major blockbuster film.