We examine the road to Gladiator II not taken in a 2001 screenplay by Nick Cave.
But it took that subject matter to a heightened and supernatural extreme.
Crowe, however, was eager to present the director with a sequel he could still star in.
It is these petty deities who also tell Maximus that he must kill Hephaestos.
This all sets up Maximus returning to Ancient Rome 20 years after his death in the arena.
Instead he is gifted immortal life as an eternal warrior that will forever doom humanity by encouraging warfare.
Scott himself recently called theChrist-Killerscript bloody silly, butGladiator IIdoes share some distant DNA with it.
This provides a new, darker vision of the afterlife.
