Ridley Scott's original Gladiator movie was a massive hit, scoring a sequel even after over two decades. According to one of the writers, the original lead, Russell Crowe, was supposed to make a cameo ...

Gladiator 2 was without the biggest star from Gladiator, Russell Crowe, but scribe Peter Craig says this wasn’t always the case. Maximus (Crowe) dies at the end of Gladiator, so it wasn’t a shock to ...

And he said, 'I know I'm dead. And I want to come back from the dead.'" In Gladiator, Crowe's Maximus, a former Roman general forced to fight for his life in the Colosseum, dies from wounds ...