As if co-starring for one earlier collaborator (that might be Ridley Scott) in a large interval epic (Gladiator 2, which might now resume filming following the tip of the actors’ strike), Denzel Washington is now connected to a different. Deadline reviews that he’ll reunite with director Antoine Fuqua for Netflix’s formidable plan to carry Hannibal to screens.
No, not Lecter – this could be the historic commander who went to struggle in opposition to the Romans and have become well-known for driving an elephant into battle.
With John Logan, who wrote Gladiator, on script responsibility, the movie will observe the pivotal battles Hannibal led in opposition to the Roman Republic throughout the Second Punic War.
This is a topic that has obsessed Hollywood typically and Vin Diesel particularly for years — he tried to get a movie made concerning the man for greater than a decade and certain nonetheless harbours ambitions.
And it is not Washington’s first go-around with the likelihood both: he was within the position greater than 20 years in the past when then-Twentieth Century Fox was producing. But on the time, he did not need to be away from his household for too lengthy. Given how not less than one in every of them (John David Washington) has adopted him into the enterprise, they might up co-starring.
It’ll additionally mark the sixth team-up for Fuqua and Washington, who’ve collaborated on Training Day, The Magnificent Seven and the Equalizer trilogy.
