DEADLINE: It will confirm your good judgment. He played a tough police detective with a tortured past named Bud White who became this symbol of masculinity. After the film played through, for awhile every pitch in Hollywood was, “imagine Bud White, as a blank.“

Few believed it could succeed. When Ridley Scott announced his return to the iconic "Gladiator" over 20 years after the original, many doubted the success of this venture. Meanwhile, "Gladiator 2" returns in grand style,

History comes alive once again at the hands of Ridley Scott – but why didn’t the Gladiator 2 filming locations include actual Rome?