In a parallel universe Gladiator 2 featured not Paul Mescal in the arena but a deceased Maximus, played by Russell Crowe, in the afterlife.
Russell Crowe could have made a return in a bonkers sequel In a parallel universe Gladiator 2 featured not Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal going head-to-head in the arena – but rather a deceased Maximus as he wakes up in the afterlife. The highly-anticipated sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 historic drama from Ridley Scott picks up years after gladiator Maximus’ death as we meet his and Lucilla’s son Lucius and his bloody thirst for revenge. But things could have looked a lot different.
’ Ridley Scott was not keen on the ‘high-theatre’ idea In fact, he even tried to discuss a potential sequel with Russell a few years after the first. He continued: ‘Russell said, “What can we do? I’m dead.” I suddenly thought there’s a way of bringing him back from the dead: As a man dies in battle, that is the opportunity to come from the dead side into the life side, to come back in the body of a soldier.
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