Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...
Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the Empire in the middle,” says Andrew Scott, a professor of ...
General Acacius (Pedro Pascal) and Lucius (Paul Mescal) in Gladiator II (2024) (©2024 Paramount Pictures; all images courtesy Paramount Pictures unless otherwise stated) Last week, Ridley Scott’s ...
Ridley Scott has revealed why the emperors in his films all tend to be a bit unstable – turns out it’s all the lead in their water pipes. Scott’s recent directorial venture Gladiator 2 stars Joseph ...
Set roughly two decades after the events of the Oscar-winning first film, Gladiator II tells a new tale about the Roman Empire and those who dared to defy it. Ridley Scott’s original film featured two ...