Gladiator director Ridley Scott is planning a sequel with Maximus in it - despite the fact he's dead

Ridley Scott wants to make a sequel to Gladiator with Russell Crowe [Universal]Ridley Scott - the film's writer and director - has confirmed that he's planning on returning to Ancient Rome to revisit Maximus Decimus Meridius, even though the hero died at the end of the movie.Russell Crowe played "the husband to a murdered wife, father to a murdered son" in the 2000 film and managed to get his "vengeance, in this life' - by killing Joaquin Phoenix's ...