Pedro Pascal as Marcus Acacius from Gladiator 2 against a flaming colosseum.
Summary Gladiator 2 will have a very hard time living up to the hype, especially after director Ridley Scott's comments on where it ranks among his own work. Gladiator 2 was in development hell for nearly two decades, and for a time, it looked like it would never happen. After all, the ending of Gladiator definitively killed Russell Crowe's Maximus, and sequel scripts attempting to undo this robbed the original of its power.
Scott claiming that Gladiator 2 might be his best work is a bold statement in itself and one that's going to make it even harder for the film to live up to decades of anticipation. Outside of Gladiator , Ridley Scott also worked with Russell Crowe on A Good Year , Body of Lies, American Gangster and Robin Hood.
2 Scott is a filmmaker who has never lacked in confidence, and even when he helms the occasional dud like Alien: Covenant, he typically bounces back quickly. Scott must be aware that labeling his Gladiator sequel as his very best film is a spicy statement - but he must also feel like he has something great on his hands to make it. After all, he's got an unbelievable cast and the script must have been special to finally entice him back to Rome.
Now, it's not outside the bounds of possibility that Gladiator 2 is Ridley Scott's best movie ever, but it has a lot of hoops to jump over to snap that trophy. Even so, many consider George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road to be his best film, and the helmer was 70 when that 2015 sequel finally arrived. There's little doubt that Gladiator 2 will be, at the absolute minimum, a fun time, but a full-on classic is another story.
It needs time to be absorbed into the culture, with all the resulting homages, parodies and memes that it entails. Gladiator's legacy is assured, but only time will tell how the sequel will be remembered. Winning a few Academy Awards wouldn't hurt its perceptions either, and it might finally be time for Scott to nab that Best Director award that has eluded him three times.
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