Sequel to Ridley Scott’s ‘Gladiator’ adds to its cast

Derek Jacobi is coming back. The movie also May Calamawy, Lior Raz, Peter Mensah and Matt Lucas.

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This movie has to be good now 

So in the end the movie almost cost nothing to make? Lol.

I mean if they are getting back $160 million, what really is the budget then?

In a recent interview with Deadline, Scott provided several key details about Washington’s unnamed Gladiator 2 character and how he fits into the world of Ancient Rome:

"....There’s a parallel character, the owner of a business that supplied weapons for the Romans, who supplied the oil when they traveled, who supplied the wine they drink. They wouldn’t drink water, they drank wine. When they traveled, who would supply wagons and horses and tack? There had to be the arms dealers of the period; here is a man who already rich from supplying the weapons, the catapults. His hobby is like a racing stable except it’s gladiators. He’s got a stable of 30 or 40 gladiators. He likes to actually see them fight and it evolves that that’s where he came from. He was captured in North Africa, and evolved into a free man because he was a good gladiator. But he hides that because also he’s now realizing the potential of his actual power. He’s wealthier than most senators, so already has thoughts and designs of the possible idea of taking power from these two crazy princes."

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