Nothing is confirmed just yet, but it certainly sounds like a Gladiator 3 is on the way. Director Ridley Scott shared with our sister publication Total Film that work had begun on a threequel. "I've already got eight pages. I've got the beginning of a very good footprint," he shared.

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.“

Scott (86) a bonafide master of cinema, yet again proves how age doesn't—and shouldn't— have to clip your wings or limit your ambition. The film is brutal, thrilling, fast-paced and magnificent, and though it is flawed,