Working at first with DreamWorks, and then later at Paramount Pictures, Scott and a rotating team of screenwriters spent two decades searching for a way to bring Gladiator protagonist Maximus back to the screen.
What seems like a simple volley - casually repeating the events of Gladiator with a new gladiator front and center - ended up a bit more convoluted, perhaps because Scott's sensibilities evolved over 20 years.
Burdened with most of the exposition and stretches of sustained glowering, Pascal and Nielsen are stuck in the political-drama variant of Gladiator II that no one involved really seems interested in making.
Gladiator II, which finally hit theaters 24 years after the original, is more from the filmmaker who brought us House of Gucci than the man behind Alien or Black Hawk Down.
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