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TIL that years before the upcoming Gladiator 2, Russell Crowe commissioned a script for a sequel in which Maximus goes to the afterlife and gets resurrected, appearing in World War 2 and the Vietnam War, and ending with him in a suit and tie at the modern-day Pentagon.

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