Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal will reunite dog star thriller after their collaboration Gladiator 2.
Mescal is in advanced negotiations to star in Scott’s next film, which is expected to be shot in 2025 after Paramount wraps filming on the untitled Bee Gees movie. dog star Scott will be working with Steve Asbell and 20th Century Studios.
The project is based on Mark L Smith’s adaptation of Peter Heller’s 2012 apocalyptic thriller, set in the near future where an unnamed epidemic has devastated American society. However, according to the producers’ synopsis, a civilian pilot lives a lonely life on an abandoned Colorado Air Force base with his dog and a tough ex-Marine. Although ill-matched, the two rely on each other to fend off roaming invaders. The promise of a better life arises when a random signal comes from the radio in the pilot’s 1956 Cessna, which follows a trail of static.
Smith, Cliff Roberts and Scott Free serve as producers dog starfollow Scott’s Gladiator sequel. exist Gladiator IIMescal plays the adult Lucius Verus II, the nephew of Emperor Commodus in the original film, played by Joaquin Phoenix. Forced into slavery, Lucius returned to Rome, not as a ruler but as a gladiator to fight for vengeance and power and seek to return the glory of Rome to the Roman people.
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