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With Gladiator II, Ridley Scott returns to the arena

By Kyle Buchanan
New York Times·
13 mins to read

The director speaks his mind on rejected sequel ideas, Joaquin Phoenix’s plan to quit the original and working with a “fractious” Denzel Washington.

It’s been 24 years since director Ridley Scott scored one of the biggest hits of his career with Gladiator, a swords-and-sandals epic starring Russell Crowe that won the Oscar for best picture. Now 86, Scott still works at a prodigious pace, sometimes even directing two films in the same year.

His latest is Gladiator II, which picks

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