Pedro Pascal Joins Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ Sequel
thewrap.comHBO’s videogame adaptation “The Last of Us” and Lucasfilm’s live-action “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian” for Disney+. In terms of movies, he’s starring alongside Ethan Hawke in Pascal’s highly anticipated gay western “Strange Way of Life” (set to debut at Cannes later this month).
He’ll also appear in “Drive-Away Dolls,” the first solo narrative feature from Ethan Coen without his brother Joel (the script was co-written by Ethan’s wife Tricia Cooke).The truly unstoppable Scott is directing the new “Gladiator” film, as well as producing with Michael Pruss via Scott Free, Douglas Wick and Lucy Fisher via Red Wagon Entertainment, and David Franzoni.
Raymond Kirk and Nigel Wooll are executive producing. Scott’s “All the Time in the World” collaborator David Scarpa, who also wrote Scott’s upcoming Oscar hopeful “Napoleon” (set to be released by Sony this fall before heading to Apple TV+) is penning the script.
Ridley is really getting the band together again on this one: John Mathieson (director of photography), Arthur Max (production designer) and Janty Yates (costume designer) are all returning from the original film, as well.Paramount Pictures set a Nov.
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