Russell Crowe as Maximus looking over his shoulder in Gladiator
This article is part of a directory: Gladiator 2: Release Date, Cast, Story, Trailer & Everything We Know PreviousGladiator 2 Star Denzel Washington Reveals Gay Kiss Was Cut:"They Got Chicken" Ridley Scott explains how Steven Spielberg contributed to the original Gladiator II script being scrapped. After Gladiator became a critical and commercial hit following its theatrical release in 2000, it took more than two decades for a sequel to come to fruition.
There was even a sequel idea that the musician Nick Cave wrote, where Maximus is resurrected as an instrument of the Roman gods dispatched against Jesus Christ. That obviously didn’t happen. It got too grand. Nick is very high theater, and Steven Spielberg said, “Nah.” I wasn’t confident about what we had actually put together, so I just let it go.
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