The classic tale of Spartacus has been given new life by the OTT TV series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand, and so now there are plan to bring it back to the silver screen, but not based of that television show, or indeed the 1960 Stanley Kubrick version (which was based on a fictionalised novel by Howard Fast). Instead Variety reports that GK Films is developing a more fact-based version.
The studio is working from a pitch by Michael Gordon (300, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra) which will focus on Spartacus as the leader of 70,000 warriors and 50,000 freed slaves as they fought against the Roman Empire between 73 and 71 BC.
At the moment things are at an early stage, as a director hasn’t been attached yet. It isn’t clear if Michael Gordon will write the screenplay based on his own pitch, or if the studio will hire another scribe.