Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington (Glory, Training Day, Fences) has signed on to star in director Antoine Fuqua’s upcoming movie at Netflix in regards to the historic warrior Hannibal, whom Washington will play. Fuqua beforehand directed Washington in the movies Training Day, The Magnificent Seven, and the Equalizer franchise. The movie can be written by John Logan, the three-time Academy Award winner who scribed Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.
According to the official logline, the historic film is “based on real-life warrior Hannibal, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest military commanders in history. The film covers the pivotal battles he led against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.”
Hannibal invaded Italy whereas using a Northern African conflict elephant. Under his lead, the Carthaginians received key victories in opposition to the Romans, permitting Hannibal to occupy nearly all of southern Italy for 15 years. Eventually, Hannibal was defeated by the Romans at the Battle of Zama after they counter-invaded North Africa.
Washington will subsequent be seen in one other conflict epic, the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. That film had to pause manufacturing in Morocco due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, however the director not too long ago revealed he had been modifying 90 minutes of footage in the course of the labor shutdown. Washington joins Paul Mescal, Connie Nielsen, Derek Jacobi, Djimon Hounsou, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger and Pedro Pascal in the movie, at the moment dated for November 2024.
by way of: Variety
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