Following up a movie as legendary, quotable, and beloved as Gladiator would never be easy ... Commodus, and Marcus Aurelius. Then there’s everything else, like the Roman Senate.

The discoveries—slow, careful, uncinematic—are not the stuff Hollywood movies are made of ... NY Emperor Marcus Aurelius decreed gladiator swords be blunted to reduce fatalities.

Mescal also won an Olivier Award for a stage adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire, before going on to star in Gladiator ... movie, which starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius, who ends ...

grown-up son from the first movie, which starred Russell Crowe as Maximus Decimus Meridius, who ends up in slavery after the murder of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Keoghan has been outspoken about his ...

When it comes to war movies and television shows ... on Commodus and restore Rome to the Republic that Marcus Aurelius once envisioned. “Gladiator II” returns us to ancient Rome, in the ...

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