The studio polled audiences and learned no one wants to see a Gladiator film without Maximus, soooo....
Coming to a theater near you: Gladiator Resurrection!
Set three thousand years after the events of Gladiator, humans on the brink of extinction on the space station Scottica create a clone of General Maximus Decimus Meridius, designated as Maximus-2, using DNA from bone samples taken from his ancient corpse. While Maximus is informed that the Earth has been recently overrun with otherworldly beings and begins to teach combat skills to a now docile humanity, the warrior soon discovers he will face his biggest challenger yet! To prove their superiority, the hostile alien leader Tachoo orders the humans to offer up their greatest warrior, in a winner-take-all combat. Faced with no other choice, to save humanity and the Earth from almost certain destruction, Maximus-2, the greatest warrior ever known, must defend his life and the lives of many by entering the gladiator arena once more.