“It was to embody the spiritual essence of the first film, but move forward into a fresh new world,” Gregson-Williams explains. In early talks with Scott, Gregson-Williams also knew he would have to ...

Gladiator 2 has now been in theaters for nearly two months, and due to the film’s Colosseum-sized break-even point of around $500 million, it will ultimately be a net loss for Paramount despite mostly ...

When any legacy sequel releases, there are always going to be comparisons to the original, and Gladiator 2 was no exception to that. The first comparisons came in the form of Rotten Tomatoes scores, ...

Russell Crowe has somehow become the loudest voice in the Gladiator II discourse—despite not appearing in a single frame of the movie. His critiques of the sequel’s creative pivots have sparked almost ...

According to Ridley Scott, Russell Crowe originally wanted to return as Maximus in Gladiator 2 by somehow reviving the war veteran from the dead. However, creative differences and sub-par plotlines ...