Dear Mick LaSalle: Wait. How can Maximus’ son be alive (in “Gladiator II”)? Unless Lucius (Paul Mescal) is the love child of Maximus? Maybe I missed something in “Gladiator.” Katherine ...

Is Paul Mescal's Lucius the son of Russell Crowe's Maximus in Gladiator 2? The first Gladiator film doesn’t explicitly mention whether Lucius is Maximus’ son, and the released snippets of ...

Before his death, the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son, Commodus ... The powerful general is captured and put into the Gladiator games until he dies. The only desire ...

Now set 15 years after Maximus’ death his son Lucius (played fantastically ... Several other huge names star in Gladiator II as well, such as Pedro Pascal playing the victorious and well ...