Raiders of The Lost Media - Nick Cave's Gladiator II

 

Man, it's been a whole year since I've done any of these. Thankfully I've found the time to do this and even better, got a great subject. Which is the original or as it's sometimes called Nick Cave's Gladiator II. Let's get into it.

Part One - Who is Nick Cave?

Originally I was going to tell you what's Gladiator II, but not only would that even been self-explanatory but I was going to go into detail about the movie in the next part. So instead let me tell you who Nick Cave is.

Nick Cave is an Australian musician, more specifically he's the frontman for Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Now I've never heard any song from this band so I can't give my opinions of his work. But when he's not writing music he's also done some film work primarily writing movies. One movie being 2005's The Proposition, which would go on to get good reviews.

Part Two - The Story of Gladiator II

Now I'm only gonna give you a brief idea, mainly because it's one of those things where it's best to read the full story all by yourself.

So here's how the story goes, Maximus has awakened in the afterlife but not the only he dreamed of. In order to get what he wants, Jupiter makes a deal with him to go and kill Hephaestus because he believes he's betraying them and is now preaching the gospel of another god who supposedly more powerful than them. Maximus agrees, then he's sent back to world of the living a decade or two after his death.

Part Three - Cancelation

So why exactly didn't the movie get made? Well it's a very simple answer really. After reading it Russel Crowe didn't like it. He simply told Nick, "Don't like it, mate". Now having written this, how did Nick take it? Well he actually didn't mind. During an interview with denofgeek.com, he would say, "I enjoyed writing it very much because I knew on every level that it was never going to get made".

And in all honesty, I'm actually glad this didn't happen. Not because I don't think the movie doesn't deserve to be made, but because it's not Gladiator. The first movie didn't have this whole supernatural aspect to it. Sure Maximus had that vision of his dead wife and son in the afterlife, but that wasn't something supernatural, that was all in his head. But I say if by any chance this does get made into a movie, they need to write out all of the Maximus parts and just make it it's own thing. That way it's an original story as suppose to being a weird sequel to a beloved classic.

So yeah, that's all I've got sorry if this is so short, but like I said previously it's a script you should read for yourself, because there's crazy stuff in there I didn't want to spoil for you. So if your curious, here's a link.

Anyhow, that's going to do it for me. Come back on Saturday, Nov 23rd, for my review of well, Gladiator II. Until then, enjoy the rest of your day.