DEADLINE: It will confirm your good judgment. He played a tough police detective with a tortured past named Bud White who became this symbol of masculinity. After the film played through, for awhile every pitch in Hollywood was, “imagine Bud White, as a blank.“

The epic film "Gladiator" was one of the biggest box office hits of 2000 and is considered a classic in the filmography of British directing legend Ridley Scott alongside "Alien", "Blade Runner" and "Thelma & Louise".

Who was sceptical about reviving "Gladiator" after many years? There was no shortage of such people. And words of admiration are multiplying just before the official premiere in theatres. Let's recall that when the first information emerged that Ridley Scott was going to film a new instalment of "Gladiator,