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As if another prequel to Alien and a sequel to Blade Runner isn't enough. 

 

Ridley Scott said: ‘I know how to bring him back. I was having this talk with the studio — “But he’s dead.” But there is a way of bringing him back.’

Asked if this sequel is a dead cert, he added: ‘Whether it will happen I don’t know. Gladiator was 2000, so Russell’s changed a little bit. "

 

Now there's a couple potential problems with this. First, Ridley Scott is 79 so there's a chance he'll die before this can happen. Or maybe dementia will set in.

 

Second is Russell Crowe's Maximus Bellyus. 

 

Still, it would be good to see old Russell doing his best Richard Burton again.

 

http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/12/a-gladiator-sequel-could-actually-happen-because-ridley-scott-knows-how-to-bring-maximus-back-6504642/


 

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Tezcatlipoca

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https://io9.gizmodo.com/ridley-scott-keeps-trying-to-revive-gladiator-but-he-p-1793199157

 

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It’s unclear what exactly Scott means by “bring him back,” since that’s very open to interpretation. It could be Maximus’ son sees him through a series of flashbacks or dream sequences, or the sequel could actually be a prequel (like Prometheus). However, I’m secretly hoping Scott actually takes up Nick Cave’s script, originally commissioned by Crowe and Scott and later rejected by the studio. Here’s an actual sample of the script, courtesy of Birth Movies Death.

 

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MAXIMUS enters the dim confines of the temple. Rain leaks through the broken stonework and runs down the walls. A large torch-wheel hangs from the ceiling on a chain and it swings and creaks. SEVEN DISSOLUTE OLD MEN (JUPITER, APOLLO, PLUTO, NEPTUNE, MARS, MERCURY, BACCHUS) cluster around a makeshift table, their heads craned towards each other as they mumble amongst themselves. MAXIMUS stands before them. The OLD MEN grow silent. They look ill and diseased. The torch-wheel creaks. JUPITER, fat, eyes boiled and blood-shot, sits in the center.

 

In this God of War-style supernatural epic, Maximus is chilling in the underworld when he gets a “holy mission” from the Roman gods to kill Jesus and stop the spread of Christianity. The so-called “Christ killer” eventually decides to help the Christians instead, who are being tortured and killed for their faith... including in the Coliseum, which was transformed into a naval battle on a manmade lake filled with alligators (yes, that is a sentence I just wrote).

 

After switching sides and helping the Christians push back the Romans, Maximus is punished to repeat the cycle of war for all eternity. He fights in the Crusades, in World War I, in freaking Vietnam. Then we see him in the Pentagon’s war room, much like in Dr. Strangelove, presumably getting ready to launch a nuclear missile. You heard that right... Maximus, the gladiator dude, controls nuclear weapons.

 

“He becomes this eternal warrior, and it ends with this 20 minute war scene which follows all the wars in history, right up to Vietnam and all that sort of stuff and it was wild. It was a stone cold masterpiece. I enjoyed writing it very much because I knew on every level that it was never going to get made. Let’s call it a popcorn dropper,” Cave said in 2013 on WTF with Mark Maron.

 

 

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Sounds a lot like the plot to Aquila, the Gordon Rennie comic from 2000AD. That guy is also an immortal gladiator who fights throughout history. Not sure when Nick Cave wrote his script but Aquila was first published in 2012, so timing suggests its a coincidence.

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22 hours ago, Darwock said:

Sounds a lot like the plot to Aquila, the Gordon Rennie comic from 2000AD. That guy is also an immortal gladiator who fights throughout history. Not sure when Nick Cave wrote his script but Aquila was first published in 2012, so timing suggests its a coincidence.

 

Cave penned his script soon after the original, so a decade or more before 2012.

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Barry Keoghan could play a 50 year old man in heavy prosthetics, a moustache, wrinkled head, grey suit, act still and be stuck up and authoritian and it'd be the most amazing actor transformation in history. Not that he'll be doing that here, just in the future if he gets to do that, his slurred wayward mannerisms are a big part of how distinct he is on screen.

 

Just read he's playing Billy the kid too. 

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