Gladiator II

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Gladiator II

film by Scott [2024]

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- Ridley Scott
  …ancient Rome with the sequel Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal as the son of Crowe’s character from the original movie.
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  …ancient Rome with the sequel Gladiator II, starring Paul Mescal as the son of Crowe’s character from the original movie.
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Paul Mescal
Stardom: Normal People and Aftersun
…also cast in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, a sequel to the 2000 box-office hit that starred Russell Crowe. The movie was released in 2024. The following year he starred as William Shakespeare in director Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, an adaptation of a Maggie O’Farrell novel that relates a fictionalized account of…
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…also cast in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, a sequel to the 2000 box-office hit that starred Russell Crowe. The movie was released in 2024. The following year he starred as William Shakespeare in director Chloe Zhao’s Hamnet, an adaptation of a Maggie O’Farrell novel that relates a fictionalized account of…
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Pedro Pascal
Films and other activities
…Roman general in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. He next appeared in Eddington (2025), which had its world premiere at the Cannes film festival. The comedy, set during the COVID-19 pandemic, featured Pascal as a liberal mayor in New Mexico who finds himself at odds with a conservative sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix).…
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…Roman general in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. He next appeared in Eddington (2025), which had its world premiere at the Cannes film festival. The comedy, set during the COVID-19 pandemic, featured Pascal as a liberal mayor in New Mexico who finds himself at odds with a conservative sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix).…
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Denzel Washington
Later movies: The Book of Eli, Flight, and Roman J. Israel, Esq.
figure Macrinus in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. The following year Washington collaborated with Lee for the fifth time, on the crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest, a remake of Kurosawa Akira’s High and Low (1963). He played a music business executive who attempts to track down the people who kidnapped the…
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figure Macrinus in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II. The following year Washington collaborated with Lee for the fifth time, on the crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest, a remake of Kurosawa Akira’s High and Low (1963). He played a music business executive who attempts to track down the people who kidnapped the…
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