Paul Mescal

'Gladiator' is about to make its comeback, sources in Hollywood say. Paul Mescal in negotiations to take on the role of Maxim.

We worked out a proper strategic battle plan in order to illustrate the formidable might of the Roman military machine.” Follow GR on [Google News ](https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqLQgKIidDQklTRndnTWFoTUtFV2R5WldWcmNtVndiM0owWlhJdVkyOXRLQUFQAQ)and [subscribe here ](https://greekreporter.com/about/newsletter/)to our daily email! In a statement to the press, he said it was “a good, logical place to go”. [2,000 soldiers in the field](https://greekreporter.com/2023/01/09/ancient-greeks-trained-healed-roman-gladiators/) at any one time, and you’re planning to experiment, you’d better make sure you’re right, because you can’t go back and reshoot it. We employed a lot of techniques we learned from videos to enhance the speed and violence of certain sequences,” he remarked. A lot of the battle scenes, of course, were done with handheld cameras. We used various techniques in terms of cameras and camera speeds.” Instead, he’d be playing Lucius, the son of [Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius ](https://greekreporter.com/2022/12/16/marcus-aurelius-roman-emperor-embraced-greek-philosophy/)and Lucille, sister of the anti-hero Commodus in the original production. John had been through a lot of that, and therefore is very inventive”. As for Mescal, he has not yet signed on the dotted line. Yet the British film producer and director of films such as Scott himself waited to confirm to convey his own interest until after filming the historical piece Napoleon.