By Additional photography is underway in the UK this week on Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator” sequel with the film’s star Paul Mescal photographed on set in costume along with plenty of extras seemingly filming battle scenes.
Shots from the filming, which mainly seem to be pick-ups as opposed to reshoots, are up on Twitter and come several months ahead of the film’s release in November.
The photos come as one of the film’s stars Joseph Quinn has told GQ that Scott would use as many as eight cameras going at once for many scenes and then assemble his desired shots in the editing room. Quinn says:
“I was like, ‘Eight cameras?’ and he’s like ‘You gotta know where to f—-ng put ’em.’ Clearly, he does. Watching that puzzle, watching him harness all those pieces and put them together was fascinating, truly.”
Scott reportedly recreates some of the original’s sets to the point that the production team rebuilt in Malta in the same spot where they shot the original 25 years earlier.
Separately, the 86-year-old tells the Financial Times that he already knows “what my next three films will be”. Of the three, he only confirms the Bee Gees biopic is next with that film about to begin casting. The other two he wouldn’t say.
One though is expected to be the dark western movie “Wraiths of the Broken Land,” a Drew Goddard-penned adaptation of the 2013 novel by S. Craig Zahler.
Zahler is best known as the filmmaker of acclaimed and brutal western “Bone Tomahawk” along with crime dramas “Brawl in Cell Block 99” and “Dragged Across Concrete”.
At last report late last year, Scott was location scouting and storyboarding a western movie that he was considering for his next film with ‘Wraiths’ quickly speculated to be the title. Scott and Goddard were first linked to the film back in 2016.
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