We examine the road to Gladiator II not taken in a 2001 screenplay by Nick Cave. Written at the behest of Russell Crowe, it ...

IndieWire caught up with Mescal and Fred Hechinger at the Los Angeles premiere of Ridley Scott's highly anticipated sequel.

"Gladiator II" doesn't try to out-epic the original movie. Instead, it veers more bonkers with a steely Paul Mescal and a ...

Before you are pulled into this new cycle of Roman excess, political intrigue, and spectacle centered on the sands of the ...

The closest comparison that can be made is with Maximinus ‘The Thracian’ Thrax. He came from a humble background, worked his ...

There isn’t a Hollywood director with a sense of scale, scope, and range quite like Ridley Scott.

Joaquin Phoenix portrayed Commodus as an evil emperor in Gladiator, the classic historical epic film by director Ridley Scott ...

If you'd asked me to name a movie that was desperate for a sequel, I would never never have said Ridley Scott's Gladiator. The legend of Maximus Decimus Meridiu ...

These portrayals are enough to make us wonder if any of the real historical figures depicted in these movies was an actual ...

According to TMZ, an insider on the Ridley Scott-directed movie says the kiss was cut because it was not in the script. They ...

Gladiator II is a direct sequel to 2000’s Gladiator ... choosing Maximus as his protector during the transition period rather than his own son, Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix). This decision proves ...

On the one hand, “Gladiator II” feels unnecessary ... heavy on the fiction — Geta and Caracalla are a watered-down if two-headed version of Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus from the first film. Caracalla’s ...