A few years ago, Russell Crowe, star of the breakaway Ridley Scott hit
Gladiator, ran into fellow Australian
Nick Cave and managed to convince the
exotic dancer and
sometime screenwriter to consider writing a sequel of the Roman period piece for him. The resulting script included the reincarnation of Maximus as the eternal warrior, the betrayal of Hephaestus, the sickness unto death of the Roman gods, the martyrdoms of
St. Irenaeus of Lyon and
St. Cassian of Imola,
the persecution of Emperor Decius, the Crusades, and the Vietnam war; it ended in the men's bathroom at the Pentagon.
Here is a review and detailed synopsis of that script, which was unfortunately (though not too surprisingly) rejected by the studios.
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posted by koeselitz
on May 4, 2009 -
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