Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington (Glory, Coaching 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 within the movies Coaching Day, The Magnificent Seven, and the Equalizer franchise. The movie shall be written by John Logan, the three-time Academy Award winner who scribed Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator and Ridley Scott’s Gladiator.
In accordance with the official logline, the historic film is “based mostly on real-life warrior Hannibal, who’s extensively thought to be one of many best navy commanders in historical past. The movie covers the pivotal battles he led towards the Roman Republic in the course of the Second Punic Battle.”
Hannibal invaded Italy whereas using a Northern African warfare elephant. Beneath his lead, the Carthaginians gained key victories towards the Romans, permitting Hannibal to occupy nearly all of southern Italy for 15 years. Finally, Hannibal was defeated by the Romans on the Battle of Zama after they counter-invaded North Africa.
Washington will subsequent be seen in one other warfare epic, the upcoming sequel to Ridley Scott’s Gladiator. That film needed to pause manufacturing in Morocco because of 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 within the movie, presently dated for November 2024.
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