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.

New Delhi, Fred Hechinger still remembers the moment he received a call from his agent confirming that he was cast in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II". The actor says he was driving in Los Angeles and he was so shocked that he immediately took a turn on the side of the road and stopped his car.

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.“