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Let a good movie exist by itself in peace, for crying out loud.
There was a time I was an avid cinema follower but that is long gone. Everything seems to be made to have sequels, prequels, skidmarks, spinoffs and anything else an accountant seems fit to pinch another penny from. Not from me.
Well that’s cliche as fuck and not at all confidence inspiring
Maybe they were referring to the actors’ regimen for getting bulked out for their parts.
/joking
On steroids meaning it's going to be bloated and unstable?
That fucking godawful trailer convinced me not to see it unless there's unanimous praise....
I heard a podcast about the version of the film they didn't make for this sequel, involving Russel Crowe's commissioning a script from Nick Cave. You wouldn't be able to cast Crowe again nowadays, but it sounded more interesting that what is being released: "Gladiator on steroids" is another way of saying "soft reboot of Gladiator".
Is it the time-traveling Crowe script? That was awful.
It's the one where he'd be immortal, and it would show him fighting wars from then until the present day (like what they did with Logan from the X-Men at one point). Maybe it would've been shit, I dunno, but I'll take any kind of proper sequel over a soft-reboot any day (I'm still grumpy about Alien: Romulus).
