DEADLINE: It will confirm your good judgment. He played a tough police detective with a tortured past named Bud White who became this symbol of masculinity. After the film played through, for awhile every pitch in Hollywood was, “imagine Bud White, as a blank.“

Ridley Scott has made the baffling decision to sequelize his 2000 peplum flick "Gladiator" 24 years after the original came out. The not-so-historically-accurate "Gladiator II" will follow Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal),

Ridley Scott's sequel to the 2000 film puts the spectacular into spectacle and needs to be seen on the biggest screen possible, writes our reviewer.