Gladiator 2s protagonist, Lucius Verus, is based on a historical figure, yet the films exaggerated story drastically changes ...

Be it in Ridley Scotts fictional Rome or the real historical Empire, rulers came and went; was Lucius Verus ever one of them, ...

The Ridley Scott sequel Gladiator II weaves in and out of the historical record. Here’s what really happened to Lucius Verus, ...

Gladiator II serves as a sequel to the 2000 Oscar-winning feature Gladiator. The plot takes 16 years after the first movie ...

Gladiator 2 debuted in theaters 24 years after the first movie, taking the audience back to that world of swords and sandals ...

Paul Mescal plays Lucius, son of Maximus, in "Gladiator 2." Lucius was also in the first "Gladiator" film, though he was only ...

The "Gladiator" sequel centers on Lucius Verus, the secret son of Russell Crowe's character from the 2000 film. Both men ...

The pacing of “Gladiator II” says a lot about what Ridley Scott’s priorities were for this film: spectacle, immersion, pure ...

A fair few main characters in Gladiator II are inspired by real-life historical figures, like Connie Nielsen's Lucilla and ...

Paul Mescal plays Lucius Verus in "Gladiator II." The film revealed in a trailer — and makes it clear in the movie — that Lucius is Maximus' son. In "Gladiator," Lucius is just a child ...

Aside from the actors in the flashbacks, there are two key performers who show up in “II” — Nielsen, who has remarried the ...

Gladiator II is a historical fiction, and for some viewers, the emphasis is on “fiction.” The movie does not have any ...