“I’ve lit the fuse,” Scott said. “The ending of ‘Gladiator II’ is reminiscent of ‘The Godfather,’ with Michael Corleone finding himself with a job he didn’t want, and wondering, ‘Now, Father, what do I do?‘ So the next [film] will be about a man who doesn’t want to be where he is.”

British filmmaker Sir Ridley Scott said there is “already an idea” for a third instalment to the Gladiator film franchise, inspired by the sequel to The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola. Gladiator II is set years after Sir Ridley’s historical epic,

Gladiator II, the sequel to Sir Ridley Scott’s historical epic starring Russell Crowe, is set years after the original film and features Paul Mescal as Lucius, the son of the late Maximus