Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...
Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the Empire in the middle,” says Andrew Scott, a professor of ...
General Acacius (Pedro Pascal) and Lucius (Paul Mescal) in Gladiator II (2024) (©2024 Paramount Pictures; all images courtesy Paramount Pictures unless otherwise stated) Last week, Ridley Scott’s ...
Ridley Scott will always print the legend. As should be abundantly clear after “Napoleon,” “Robin Hood,” and “Kingdom of Heaven,” Ridley Scott is interested in history as a vehicle for studying ...