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\n\tRidley Scott<\/a> revealed in a latest New Yorker profile <\/a>that he has been modifying the 90 minutes of footage he was in a position to seize for \u201cGladiator 2<\/a>\u201d earlier than the Hollywood strikes shut down manufacturing. Scott was taking pictures the long-awaited \u201cGladiator\u201d sequel in Morocco when filming stopped indefinitely. He can\u2019t resume manufacturing till the SAG-AFTRA strike is resolved. <\/p>\n \n\tAs reported by The New Yorker: \u201cWith SAG-AFTRA and the studios back in negotiations, he was preparing to pick up \u2018Gladiator 2,\u2019 which stars Paul Mescal<\/a>, the moment the strike was resolved. \u2018I could shoot on Monday,\u2019 he said. (The talks fell apart a week later.) In the meantime, he\u2019d been polishing the 90 minutes he had, including a scene in which the hero fights a pack of baboons; he\u2019d been haunted, he said, by a video of baboons attacking tourists in Johannesburg: \u2018Baboons are carnivores. Can you hang from that roof for two hours by your left leg? No! A baboon can.’\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tRussell Crowe confronted off in opposition to Joaquin Phoenix in Scott\u2019s unique \u201cGladiator,\u201d which grossed a whopping $503 million worldwide in 2000 and received the Oscar for finest image, however \u201cGladiator 2\u201d star Paul Mescal will apparently be going head-to-head in opposition to a pack of baboons. How\u2019s that for elevating the stakes? Mescal is joined within the sequel by Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger and Pedro Pascal.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGladiator 2\u201d is ready years after the occasions of the unique and follows an grownup Lucius (Mescal), the nephew of Commodus (Phoenix). Given the time leap, unique star Crowe isn’t concerned within the sequel. Crowe earned the Academy Award for finest actor due to \u201cGladiator.\u201d He has repeatedly stated<\/a>\u00a0that neither Scott nor anybody concerned with \u201cGladiator 2\u201d reached out to him because the sequel has nothing to do with the character he performed within the unique. At the Karlovy Film Festival in July, Crowe\u00a0even urged the press<\/a>\u00a0to cease asking him in regards to the \u201cGladiator\u201d sequel.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThey should be fucking paying me for the amount of questions I am asked about a film I am not even in,\u201d Crowe stated. \u201cIt has nothing to do with me. In that world, I am dead. Six feet under. But I do admit to a certain tinge of jealousy, because it reminds me of when I was younger and what it meant for me, in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n