Director Sir
Ridley Scott and the team behind
Gladiator (2000) have spoken about making a sequel at one point or another. But lead actor
Russell Crowe is quite skeptical of the possibility of 'Gladiator 2' happening, in which Crowe states: "If they're having conversations about that, those conversations haven't included me. I'm not sure what they have in mind. At all... Can I just say, with a pinch of salt, they have genuinely been having the same conversations since the year 2000." When he later learned that the movie would proceed with
Paul Mescal in the lead, he congratulated the actor while also admitting that he was slightly jealous.
