“Gladiator 2” production designer Arthur Max describes his sets as “‘Gladiator’ on steroids.”

  • Andrew
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    34 days ago

    I heard a podcast about the version of the film they didn’t make for this sequel, involving Russel Crowe’s commissioning a script from Nick Cave. You wouldn’t be able to cast Crowe again nowadays, but it sounded more interesting that what is being released: “Gladiator on steroids” is another way of saying “soft reboot of Gladiator”.

    • @Brkdncr
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      14 days ago

      Is it the time-traveling Crowe script? That was awful.

      • Andrew
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        24 days ago

        It’s the one where he’d be immortal, and it would show him fighting wars from then until the present day (like what they did with Logan from the X-Men at one point). Maybe it would’ve been shit, I dunno, but I’ll take any kind of proper sequel over a soft-reboot any day (I’m still grumpy about Alien: Romulus).