Saw this on Reddit and thought it'd be appreciated here.

I've often heard of this but never read it until recently. Apparently there was an idea for a sequel to Gladiator in which Maximus is resurrected to become an avenging soldier who fights in wars throughout time like WW2 and Vietnam.

It's a TERRIBLE idea for a Gladiator sequel and obviously it never got close to getting made. But according to Reddit, Crowe actually commissioned a script to be written based on the idea and you can read it here.

Gladiator 2
https://davidgerard.co.uk/gladiator-2-nick-cave.pdf

Not trying to poo poo on another's piece of work. But for a high profile project paid for by a big name actor, I found the script, well bland and dull. Nowhere near the quality I see posted here on these boards. It's like a really awful fan-fic, lol. Just tells me, I think, it's not what you know, it's who you know. Right? lol

WOW!  Seriously piss poor writing on display here.

Unreal...there is hope for us all!  HA!!!

This was just a star's vanity project. No way would it have got greenlit.

Hope is alive

I'd always thought if anyone resurrected Maximus it would be as a prequel, like a drama based on his last moments with his wife and child before being sent off to Germania, or an action showing us how he became the well respected general we see in Gladiator.

Hmm written by another Aussie, Nick Cave.  Link to when this was discovered in 2009 lol

https://pitchfork.com/news/35262-nick-caves-rejected-batshit-gladiator-sequel-script-discovered/

There’s hope for mine then - Michael Jordan goes back in time and plays the carthaginians one on one in elephant soccer for the World Cup!

Of course I wrote in Charles Barkley as the TV host!

LOL

There is hope