Russell Crowe über "Gladiator 2"

So gibt er im Interview bei Moviehole bekannt:
[..] There’s always talk of a [Gladiator] sequel or prequel. Have you ever been interested?
At first I was very cynical about that notion, but I’ve come around on it. We’ve had other ideas too, where we step off into the metaphysical and you actually acknowledge the fact that Maximus is dead [laughs], but that is a hard script to write.

How far did you get with the idea?
Nick Cave actually wrote a draft for me and Ridley [Scott] at one point. He’s an excellent writer, man. Nick did this draft and Ridley and I considered it for a while. Actually I paid for it, such is my belief for the idea. But again, like I say, unless everybody is on line then it’s kind of pointless going forward with it. [..]