Irish actor Paul Mescal follows in Oscar winner Russell Crowe's sandals to fight in the Colosseum in "Gladiator II", the highly anticipated sequel to filmmaker Ridley Scott's Ancient Rome power saga.Set 16 years after Crowe's hero Maximus died in the original 2000 "Gladiator" film,

Gladiator II” may have taken over two decades to come to fruition, but star Paul Mescal is already thinking about a third installment of Ridley Scott’s epic. When asked by Variety at the film’s London premiere if he’d want to make “Gladiator 3,

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Gladiator 2 stars reflected on working with Sir Ridley Scott as they walked the red carpet at the film’s London premiere on Wednesday, 13 November. The highly-anticipated second instalment of the 2000 film — which was originally fronted by Oscar-winner Russell Crowe as Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius — stars Paul Mescal as Lucius Verus who originally appeared in the first film as a child.

Adan Monaghan/Paramount Pictures/Everett Collection EXCLUSIVE: Every interview Ridley Scott has done with Deadline has turned into a master class on his cinematic exercises in world creation, ranging from Alien,

The epic film "Gladiator" was one of the biggest box office hits of 2000 and is considered a classic in the filmography of British directing legend Ridley Scott alongside "Alien", "Blade Runner" and "Thelma & Louise".