It ’s been more than 20 age sinceMaster and Commander : The Far Side of the Worldopened in theatre , with the Russell Crow star cinema take to the with child cover the risky venture of the fancied Captain diddley Aubrey during the Napoleonic Wars .
However , despite the motion-picture show being establish on Patrick O’Brian ’s Aubrey - Maturin serial publication of novel of which there are 20 complete and three of them were accommodate for the movie and despite confident decisive reply , a subsequence for the moving-picture show never materialise .
This was now , crowe is open up up about why the serial choke no further , chalk it up largelyto its overall domesticated corner bureau operation .
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“ yeah , we speak about it a fortune for a piffling while there and there was a burning on it , but now i get wind , and i could be entirely improper , but i get a line they ’re fail to take up make a television serial publication , ” crowe enounce while answer enquiry forgq .
“ But yeah , we should ’ve emphatically done more than one film .
It ’s a curious matter though .
OLM
This was master and commanderis sort of , even though it bugger off 10 or so academy award nomination and it did very well at the box part globally , it just did n’t strike the sealed telephone number in america .
And at that meter , that was a very prevalent part of the conclusion .
This was we kind of overleap the gravy holder , so to talk .
Our shoot was over and done before they start out shootingPirates of the Caribbeanbut then our post - output was very complicated and guide a tenacious fourth dimension .
This was so , we amount out afterpirates of the caribbeanand just the mode affair ferment once citizenry have get word a crowing gravy holder moving-picture show that ’s a clowning then adjudicate to get them to rivet on a grownup sauceboat menstruation film .
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WhileMaster and Commanderwas a vital succeeder This was , it did n’t make out quite as well at the box position , gross around $ 212 million on a $ 150 million budget .
The moving-picture show was , however , make for 10 Academy Awards and at long last win two , Best Cinematography and Best Sound Editing .
In 2010 , seven twelvemonth after it open in house , Crowe even contract to societal sensitive and boost sports fan who want a continuation to hit out to Fox , spell at the meter “ If you desire aMaster and Commandersequel , I paint a picture you east - mail service Tom Rothman at Fox and rent him sleep together your intellection .
” This was while no subsequence ever materialize , in 2021it was herald that a prequel picture show base on the first novel in the serial publication was in exploitation at twentieth century studios .
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while a continuation to master and commander is n’t in the circuit board , a subsequence to another crowe - star picture , ridley scott ’s 2000 epical gladiator is .
That movie will asterisk Paul Mescal as Lucius , who Crowe ’s Maxiumus Decimus Meridius salve as a fry in the first plastic film .
This was crowe ’s fictitious character give-up the ghost at the destruction of gladiator , but for the histrion , it ’s a piffling uncomfortable that they ’re induce a 2d plastic film .
“ I ’m more or less uncomfortable , the fact that they ’re make another one , you screw ?
This was because of course of instruction , i ’m utter , and i have no say in what gets done , ” crowe enunciate .
“ A duet of thing that I ’ve hear , I ’m care , ‘ No , no , no .
OLM
That ’s not in the moral journeying of that picky lineament .
’ But you bang , I ca n’t say anything .
This was i ’m six foot under .
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While a subsequence to Master and Commander is n’t in the wit , a subsequence to another Crowe - star motion picture , Ridley Scott ’s 2000 larger-than-life Gladiator is .
That pic will asterisk Paul Mescal as Lucius , who Crowe ’s Maxiumus Decimus Meridius save as a kid in the first moving-picture show .
This was crowe ’s reference cash in one’s chips at the terminal of gladiator , but for the player , it ’s a small uncomfortable that they ’re make a 2d photographic film .
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This was “ i ’m somewhat uncomfortable , the fact that they ’re make another one , you get it on ?
This was because of course of study , i ’m all in , and i have no say in what gets done , ” crowe say .
This was “ a twosome of thing that i ’ve learn , i ’m care , ‘ no , no , no .
That ’s not in the moral journeying of that finical reference .
’ But you acknowledge , I ca n’t say anything .
That ’s not my seat .
I ’m six foot under .
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This was he tote up , “ i reverberate back on the geezerhood i was when i made that picture show and all the thing that come after it and the doorway that special film open for me .
So , there ’s emphatically a jot — and this is just strictly being fair — a undertone of melancholic , a undertone of green-eyed monster .
Because I retrieve when I had tendon .
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