Ridley Scott’s ready to go another round with Gladiator
Having wrapped Alien: Covenant, Ridley Scott’s riding the high of renewed interest in his revived movie franchise. The legendary director has already written the next installment in the prequel saga, and now he wants to go further back in time for an upcoming project. While at SXSW, Scott told Entertainment Weekly what he’d really like to do now is shoot another Gladiator movie. And look, he knows Maximus Decimus Meridius died and all (we apologize for spoiling the end of a 17-year-old movie), but he’s already worked out a plan for his resurrection: “I know how to bring him back. I was having this talk with the studio—‘but he’s dead.’ But there is a way of bringing him back.”