Aftersun star Paul Mescal circling Ridley Scott’s Gladiator sequel

The sequel to director Ridley Scott's multi-Academy Award-winning picture Gladiator is progressing (2000),

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the critically acclaimed thriller Aftersun, and the most recent rumour is that Paul Meskal, best known for the series Normal People, is in talks to star.

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have been cast in the much anticipated follow-up. Russell Crowe's career took off after Gladiator.

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The About to Die, a 1958 book by Daniel P. Mannix, served as the basis for the movie's historical revenge story.

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an ex-Hispanic Roman general whose family is slain by Commodus, the cunning emperor (Joaquin Phoenix). Is.

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Paul Mescal is anticipated to play the character of Lucius, the son of Commodus' sister Lucilla (Connie Nielsen), in the second instalment.

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With The Last Duel, Scott made a comeback to the sword-and-sandal genre last year, but the movie bombed at the box office.

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is generating Oscar buzz for his role as a disturbed parent in the movie Aftersun.

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He will also appear in the Andrew Scott and Claire Foy film Strangers of Andrew High.

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