Gladiator III in the works from Ridley Scott

It took Ridley Scott twenty years to return to the Roman Colosseum with Gladiator IIbut he is already planning his third trip to ancient Rome.

“I would prefer to enter in Gladiator III“, Scott said The Hollywood Reporter Asked Thursday about a potential different project for the 86-year-old director to next, “There's already an idea.” He added that he's taking inspiration from The Godfather – Part II for the next story.

THE Gladiator 3 The news first leaked on Friday after its French publication Before posted similar comments from Scott.

Gladiator II opens November 22 and arrives 20 years after Scott Gladiatorwhich won five Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Russell Crowe. Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen star in the new film.

Scott remains one of the most prolific directors working in Hollywood, a filmmaker who sometimes releases two films in a single year. His next film is expected to be a Bee Gees biopic at Paramount that counts Gladiator scribbler John Logan as writer, along with Joe Penhall. Production is expected to begin next year in London and Miami.

With a hint of irony, director Roland Emmerich recently said that the second season of his TV show about gladiators Those who are about to die I will take inspiration from The Godfather IIWhile Emmerich is interested in the use of flashbacks in the 1974 classic, Scott is more interested in exploring similar themes to that film in Gladiator 3Both Emmerich's TV series and the first Gladiator the film used the same source material: the novel by Daniel P. Mannix Those who are about to die.

With regard to Gladiator IIScott is confident. “It’s probably even more amazing than the first one,” Scott said in April at Cinemacon, where he unveiled the first footage.

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