‘The Last Duel’ Film Review: Matt Damon’s Medieval Hero Outshines Ridley Scott’s Muddled Mystery

Gladiator 2, confirming the sequel is being “written now”.The director, who helmed the 2000 classic Gladiator starring Russell Crowe, stated his plans to helm the sequel once he concludes work on his next project, KitBag.Starring Joaquin Phoenix as Napoléon Bonaparte opposite Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) as his wife Josephine, KitBag follows the French leader’s origins and swift rise as emperor.Speaking to Empire magazine, Scott said: “I’m already having [the next] Gladiator written now.

When filmmakers grow older, they tend to become less prolific, taking years between projects. Ridley Scott apparently didn’t get that memo.

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Jodie Comer looks stunning in a sleek black ensemble for the premiere of The Last Duel held at Gaumont Champs Elysees on Friday night (September 24) in Paris, France.

Jodie Comer is going glam for the premiere of her new movie!

Adult Swim and Crunchyroll’s upcoming animated series “Blade Runner: Black Lotus” takes place between the events of Ridley Scott’s 1982 classic “Blade Runner” and Denis Villeneuve’s 2017 sequel “Blade Runner: 2049.” Set in a futuristic world that plays by its own very strict rules, the minds behind the series at Alcon Entertainment, the owner of the “keeper” of the “Blade Runner” IP, strived to make sure that everything in their new series did in fact play by those rules.

Met Gala in New York on Monday night in an effort to embrace the night's 'In America: A Lexicon of Fashion' theme and fans had a field day on social media creating a host of hilarious memes. Many were quick to share their confusion over Kim Kardashian's avant-garde Balenciaga look, with one tweeting: 'Please tell me she isn't wearing that,' as others compared her to a soul-eating Dementor from Harry Potter as well as the titular character from Ridley Scott's Alien.

At 83-years-old, there isn’t much that Ridley Scott has left to accomplish in his career. Even now, at an age where many filmmakers are content to collect their lifetime achievement awards, Scott continues to produce some of his most ambitious and far-reaching work.

Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have proudly declared The Last Duel to be a feminist film.Based on the titular 2004 book by Eric Jager, the film – directed by Ridley Scott, with Affleck and Damon writing, producing and starring – is based on the true story of the last medieval trial by combat.Set in 14th century France, the story follows a duel between Jean de Carrouges (Damon) and Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), after the latter rapes the former’s wife, Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer).Take a

Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.Besties Affleck and Damon celebrated the premiere of their new film,, at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, with their special ladies by their side.

Gwyneth Paltrow has reacted to the stunning photos of her ex Ben Affleck, 49, making his rekindled relationship with Jennifer Lopez, 52, red carpet official! The pair stepped out at the Venice Film Festival on September 10 for the premiere of Ridley Scott‘s The Last Duel, which Ben co-wrote and starred in with childhood friend Matt Damon.

Everyone has their own truth, as they say, but some of those truths are considerably truer than others. Old pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join forces with established indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener to adapt a true story – that of Marguerite de Carrouges, a 14th century French noblewoman who was raped by an old friend of her husband’s – and tell it from three different angles in Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel.

Jodie Comer is looking amazing on the red carpet!

Matt Damon has his wife Luciana by his side for his latest movie premiere!

Ben Croll Everything old was new again at the Venice Film Festival on Friday, as actor Ben Affleck hit the red carpet hand in hand with girlfriend Jennifer Lopez, formally launching Bennifer 2.0.The couple posed alongside co-stars Matt Damon and Jodie Comer and director Ridley Scott as they took in the world premiere of their historical drama “The Last Duel,” a true story of betrayal and revenge set in 14th century France.

In shades of the gunmetal gray that has become the grading palette of choice for Serious Historical Epics — possible because arterial blood spray shows up so nice and red against it —Ridley Scott‘s starry, surprisingly engaging “Rashomon“-inflected “The Last Duel” opens on the wintry December day of the duel in question.

Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez just made their red carpet debut as a couple… for the second time!

Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticRidley Scott’s “The Last Duel” is set in France in the late 1300s, and after a clangingly violent early battle scene, as well as a flashforward to the title duel, in which a pair of sworn rivals in heavy armor come at each other on horseback, each brandishing his lance a lot (sorry, I couldn’t resist), the film looks like it might be a swords-and-blood-in-the-mud movie: one of those flashy brutal period spectaculars which Scott, the director of “Gladiator,”