Director Ridley Scott himself has a few years on Washington, as in one week’s time, the filmmaker will be 87. Even though they could technically make a Gladiator III tomorrow, at this point it seems that if another Gladiator were to come our way, it would be in the distant future and in the form of a reboot or reimagining.

I don’t much like the first “Gladiator.” I think it’s a big dumb overdone movie. It’s fun enough in its way, and lines like, “Are you not entertained?” and “I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next” are kind of cool.