Nick Cave & Russel Crowe -- Gladiator 2?
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Nick Cave apparently was tasked with writing a sequel to Gladiator. Um. OK.
It's not that it's totally off the mark -- Cave wrote a couple of novels, and did a few screenplays (and his cinematic songs, of course).
The main issue? The lead character in the first movie was killed. So now, I guess, Cave has employed immortaiity, and extends the movie through modern times. Too crazy, really, to not be true
This blog has the details, including excerpts. A bit of their synopsis:
- We intercut the following with shots of the dying stag from earlier in the film:
- Middle Eastern Battlefield: Maximus stands surrounded by hundreds of Crusaders as they battle a Muslim army. Everyone dies around him, only Maximus remains untouched.
- Europe: Maximus battles tanks in World War 2.
- Vietnam: Maximus battles Vietcong with a flamethrower.
- The Pentagon, Present Day: Maximus washing his hands in a men's room sink. He stars at himself in the mirror…reflecting. Mordecai stands behind him…whispers: "Until eternity itself has said it's prayers." Maximus exits; proceeds into a large war room containing a dozen men in suits.
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Comments (5)
TJ,
Interesting development. Sort of reminds me of a game I used to play called "Time Commando"....
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i have no idea how thats suppose to work. but i did love the first...
Nick Cave did write the great Australia-Western "The Proposition".
But doing a sequel to Gladiator is foolish and only something a non-immaginative wad of money in a suit can think of, doesn't mean they'll go through with it. They hire a bunch of promising screenwriters to come up with an idea and maybe one of them or elements from some of them seem promising, throw in Shia Lebouf and maybe they can double their money back.
Have you seen this slap in the face:
to dachmo's point - "The Proposition" was great... but ahh... a time-travelling Gladiator?
I'm appalled.