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 ...

Yes, many of the characters in ‘Gladiator’ and its new sequel are based on actual figures from ancient Rome Just as Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus, an actual Roman emperor, in the 2000 hit starring ...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Gladiator II.Gladiator II takes much creative liberty with the depiction of the later ancient Roman Empire, but its confirmed sequel is set up to veer ever ...

Gladiator II remains a massive question mark hanging over the fall season. The reported budget is absolutely massive. It might be the most expensive movie of the entire fall season, and if it fails, ...

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 ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

I believe there is an answer: In the year 212 AD the Roman Emperor Caracalla issued a law of the land that every inhabitant in the known Roman Empire was immediately granted Roman citizenship. From ...

Gladiator II might seem too wild to be believed — Colosseum rhinos and baboons and sharks, oh my! — but it’s based on real-life Roman history and people. Just as Joaquin Phoenix played Commodus, an ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Gladiator II. 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 ...