Ridley Scott Has Been Editing 90 Minutes Of ‘Gladiator 2’ Amid Strikes, Footage Includes A Baboon Fight Scene

https://deadline.com/2023/11/ridley-scott-editing-90-minutes-gladiator-2-strike-footage-baboon-fight-scene-1235596463/

Footage that was shot before the strikes includes a scene with baboons.

The profile continued, “In the meantime, he’d been polishing the 90 minutes he had, including a scene in which the hero fights a pack of baboons; he’d been haunted, he said, by a video of baboons attacking tourists in Johannesburg: ‘Baboons are carnivores. Can you hang from that roof for two hours by your left leg? No! A baboon can.’”