Gladiator II is all but ready to debut on the big screen and show audiences what happened decades after the events of the first film, when Maximus Decimus Meridius passed into the Elysian fields.

Here's what you need to know about Gladiator 2. Crowe’s character Maximus (spoiler alert) died at the end of the original film, and as of now, there aren’t plans for Crowe to appear in the film.