1. Cave In
“At first I was very cynical about the notion of a Gladiator sequel, but I’ve come around on it,” said Russell Crowe, some years after Ridley Scott’s epic had mopped up at the Oscars.
“We’ve had other ideas too, where we step off into the metaphysical and you actually acknowledge the fact that Maximus is dead! But that’s a hard script to write.
Nick Cave actually wrote a draft for me and Ridley at one point. He’s an excellent writer, man. Nick did this draft and Ridley and I considered it for a while.”
2. Back From The Dead
“Russell didn’t want to let it go, obviously, because it worked very well,” says Ridley Scott. “I mean, when I say ‘worked very well’, I don’t refer to success. I mean, as a piece it works very well.
Storytelling, [it] works brilliantly. I think Cave enjoyed doing it and I think it was one of those things that he thought, ‘Well, maybe there’s a sequel where we can adjust the fantasy and bring him back from the dead...’”
3. Dead Man Walking
Opening scene: resurrected violently out of the mud, the slain Maximus awakes to murder two thieves looting his body. From there, Cave’s script sends him to a vast netherworld – infinite numbers of the damned stretching endlessly to eternity on a pitch-black sea – where he searches for his dead wife.
Comments
ashley.russell
May 22nd 2009, 13:21
it sounds interesting, It's a bit like the God of War games. I don't like the end though.
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scabo33
May 22nd 2009, 16:39
Are u not entertained!???
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Porus
May 22nd 2009, 17:53
The only way to go with Gladiator 2 would be a re-incarnation story set about 30 years later. An Oracle tells RC that he was once a great warrior and to set the troubles straight in his present life he has some unfinished business from his past life. Rome STILL has an Emperor, that little brat (Diane Krueger's son) has grown up to be a Nero-esque meglomaniac mad man.
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thedarkknight
May 22nd 2009, 22:45
The end is just Wolverine with less mutants! Sounds interesting but nobody in their right mind would make it.
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Mattsimus
May 23rd 2009, 12:36
I think naturally people would love to see a sequal to a great epic, but realistically some films need to stay as a solo effort and are better as one movie, shawshank redemption, usual suspects, american history X e.t.c., Gladiator bares no exception, regardless of how exciting the premise of a sequal may be or how well written the script is.....Leave it alone!!!!!
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yusuo
May 24th 2009, 17:38
Despite how ridiculous this all originally sounded, if done right then it could of been something really special but if I did have a big problem with the ending I can't really see Maximus, destroying tanks, weilding a flame thrower or working in the pentalgon. I have to admit that actually made me laugh, I'm glad it was never made. It would of destoryed the originals acclaim
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