nick cave wrote gladiator II

recently the proposition was released, a brutal australian western, written by nick cave and directed by john hillcoat.
apparently, cave wrote another script three years ago: for gladiator II, on russell crowe's request. cave says he enjoyed writing the script, but crowe and director ridley scott found it completely unacceptable and went scriptshopping somewhere else. what a shame.


















apart from writing the script for the proposition, cave also wrote the soundtrack. this isn't cave's first encounter with film music. he also wrote music for to have and to hold, jonas in the desert and, more recently, the love & murder tv series.