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It’s been nearly 25 years since legendary director Ridley Scott made sword-and-sandal epics popular again with his box office juggernaut Gladiator.That 2000 blockbuster boasted a muscular and ...
Some applauded the film, calling it "excellent" and "soooo good.". Others were a bit more dramatic with one writing, “Just watched gladiator 2 and suddenly life is worth living again ...
As Mescal’s Lucius hopes for and fights for a better Rome, Macrinus has other plans: a bloodthirsty quest for revenge. Twin emperors, played by Joseph Quinn and Fred Hechinger, stand in his way.
From long-awaited sequels like “Gladiator II” to gritty historical dramas like “Blitz,” Variety’s FYC Fest: The Shortlist provides a lens into the artistic subtleties of filmmaking ...
Ridley Scott returned to direct Gladiator II two decades after the original. In May 2006, Scott stated that DreamWorks Pictures had wanted to make the sequel, but there were differing ideas for the story. Crowe had favoured a fantasy element in bringing Maximus back to life, while the studio were basing the film on Lucius as the son of Maximus ...
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For a film that took what seems like centuries to get made, Scott’s Gladiator II feels weirdly rushed, a gallimaufry of half-baked ideas and lazy throwbacks to the Crowe original from 2000. And ...
Mescal was 13 when he first watched the original “Gladiator.” “I was at home with my dad. I feel like for a lot of dads it was a big film, like, ‘Come on, son, let’s watch ‘Gladiator ...