Academy-award nominee and BAFTA award winner Barry Keoghan is currently in talks for Ridley Scott’s upcoming ‘Gladiator’ sequel.
The sequel follows 2000’s blockbuster hit “Gladiator” which was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, winning five including best picture.
The film also stars the 2023 Academy award nominee Paul Mescal and is all set to release on November 22, 2024.
It will be produced by Scott, his Scott Free Productions president Michael Pruss, Red Wagon Entertainment’s Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher David Scarpa will write the script.
The first ‘Gladiator’, released in 2000, starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius, a Roman soldier taken into slavery who pledges vengeance on Commodus, played by Joaquin Phoenix.