Ridley Scott has revealed why the emperors in his films all tend to be a bit unstable – turns out it’s all the lead in their water pipes. Scott’s recent directorial venture Gladiator 2 stars Joseph ...

If so, you know this genre is filled with both epic blockbusters and epic stinkers, and it can be hard to find a film that ...

Gladiator is about a general-turned-gladiator named Maximus (Russell Crowe), who was created just for the film. He is likely a fictionalized combination of the historical general Marcus Nonius ...

Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the Empire in the middle,” says Andrew Scott, a professor of ...

General Acacius (Pedro Pascal) and Lucius (Paul Mescal) in Gladiator II (2024) (©2024 Paramount Pictures; all images courtesy Paramount Pictures unless otherwise stated) Last week, Ridley Scott’s ...

Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by his bodyguards, the praetorians; and Geta was murdered by his brother ...

Ridley Scott has revealed why the emperors in his films all tend to be a bit unstable – turns out it’s all the lead in their water pipes. In a new interview, Scott explains that there is a historical ...

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Gladiator II. Some contemporary accounts suggest that they did some scheming. “In one of the sources, it even says that they had a plan to split the Empire in ...