From the 1:1 scale Colosseum to the marauding model rhino, Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sequel screams conspicuous spending – but how bullish is Hollywood feeling, and what do we know about the film so far?
‘You can see the money on screen’: why Hollywood is betting on Gladiator II not being another Folie à Deux
Gladiator II’s headline-grabbing excess still adds up, says Steven Gaydos, executive editor of Variety. “You can see the money on screen,” he says. The opposite was true for Joker 2: “Had they shot it for $80m it would have been tremendously profitable. Instead they spent $200m on two people singing in a room.”
Meanwhile Scott, its director, now 86, has retained the work ethic and economic pragmatism of his early years in the ad industry, with few of the auteurist indulgences of peers such as Francis Ford Coppola or even Martin Scorsese. Scott is sufficiently confident in the project to be already scripting the next sequel.
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