Apparently, someone thinks we do. WTF? The first film was a kick-ass movie, not historically accurate, but a fine romp of a film. Now, Hollywood wants to ruin it by making a sequel. Why? Three of the principle characters are dead by the end of the first film and the gladitorial combats are supposed to be ended, which pretty much makes a sequel pointless. Unless the film’s directed by Ridley Scott and/or features full-frontal nudity of Connie Nielsen, don’t expect to find me in the theater for this non-blockbuster of a flick. (Note to mods, link is to imdb.com page on Ms. Nielsen and not a porn site.)
Well FTR the second movie was actaully the second half of the book. Maybe not as good as the first movie but there was a point to it. Now why they ever made a third I’ll never know. Though the Rock Biter singing Born to Be Wild was pretty good.
If you made a sequel to Gladiator, would it be better to try and have some connection to history, or just go off in a completely different direction in the movie’s alternate-universe version of Rome? They restore the Republic, Connie Nielsen takes a bath in sheep’s milk, they invent hot-air balloons, then dinosaurs invade the city under the control of time-travelling robots which must be defeated by gladiators. Sounds good!
“People once believed that when a movie died, a studio would carry its soul to the land of the dead. But when there was great profit, most of the time–only most of the time–that studio would bring that movie back.”
Hopefully, Russell Crowe’s gladiator is going to be some kind of undead zombie in this movie, returning from the grave to wreak vengenace on those who killed his family.
“Yeah, yeah, unleash hell. But first, MORE BRAINS!!!”
Well, with a title like that, there would have to be, wouldn’t there?
Also, I swear I saw Jack Black in one of the sequals.
I heard that Maximus was frozen and then brought back to life in the future, where he will fight robot ninjas for control over Hitlers brain.
