Gladiator 2 director Ridley Scott discusses the fate of Denzel Washington's Macrinus and the thematic connections that make it a spectacle.

And you can thank fellow film legend and "Megalopolis" director Francis Ford Coppola for that.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "I sat and pondered all this over a weekend,

Ridley Scott already has a plan for Gladiator III, and he has not been shy when it comes to dropping hints about it. The visionary director has been promoting his new action-epic sequel, which is set to deliver a $60 million opening weekend at the box office.

Ridley Scott is looking to Coppola's Godfather trilogy for inspiration on how his own Gladiator saga can end with III.

Your choice is water or wine. When you drink water, it’s through a lead system that by then could be 200 years old,’ he says

Director Ridley Scott breathed new life into the swords-and-sandals genre with an exhilarating Gladiator sequel. Gladiator II picks up on the events of the first movie and ends wi

But was the helmet worn by a Jewish gladiator? Did Jewish gladiators even exist? It’s at least as likely that Jews took to the arena in ancient Rome as it was that gladiators fought sharks, a key plot point of Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II,

Deeming it "very unfortunate," Ridley Scott addresses a scary Gladiator II filming mishap that ended up sending multiple crew members to the hospital.