The 'Gladiator' Sequel Is Real And It Will Be Presumably Russell Crowe-Free

The 'Gladiator' Sequel Is Real And It Will Be Presumably Russell Crowe-Free ...

The 'Gladiator' Sequel Is Real And It Will Be Presumably Russell Crowe-Free

The â€˜Gladiatorâ€™ Sequel Is Real And It Will Be Presumably Russell Crowe-Free Matt Prigge 11.01.18 4 hours ago

Thursday was a big day for people who love the â€™90s. First we heard that Mike Myers has been secretly (though not surprisingly) hard at work on a new Austin Powers fourquel. And now this: According to Deadline, the unstoppable Ridley Scott has started work (or as the article put it, â€œbegun forward progressâ€) on a two decades-later sequel to Gladiator, his swords-and-sandals epic, which won Best Picture, Best Actor (for Russell Crowe), and three other, technical Oscars back in the year 2000.

â€œBut,â€ you say, out loud in a lonely room, â€œCroweâ€™s commander-turned-gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius died in the previous film.â€ Yes, he did. And so Scott will follow in the footsteps of the sixth Rocky sequel Creed: It will pick things back up with the next generation.

Thatâ€™s right: Gladiator 2 will follow Lucius. You remember Lucius, right? He wasnâ€™t Maximusâ€™ son, who was murdered in the first act. Heâ€™s the son of the sister (Connie Nielsen) of the man who ordered said assassination, Joaquin Phoenixâ€™s Commodus. Played by young Spencer Treat Clark, Lucius was nothing like his tongue-slapping, incestuous psychopath of an uncle. In fact, when his uncle ordered him and his mother killed, it was Maximus who saved their lives. (Our advice: Slip Crowe in there as a mentoring ghost Ã la his Jor-El in Man of Steel.)